Speak-Pup Version 0.001
Speak-Pup Version 0.001
Speak-pup version 0.001 experimental is now complete and out the door, and can be found at:
http://www.filecrunch.com/user/Trobin
MD5 is 2df2facef90bb1bb31caf55e755428a1 speak-pup.iso
Specifics:
Operating System......................................................................Puppy 2.17
Speech Server............................................................................FreeTTS
Screen Reader............................................................................YASR
Text Editer..................................................................................MP
Intrnet Browser...........................................................................Elinks
IRC Chat.....................................................................................Irssi
File Manager...............................................................................Ytree
Audio...........................................................................................MPG321
Soft Brailler.................................................................................Brltty
ISO size is 148 megabytes.
Speak-pup will load to a simple menu, from which you can opt to:
read your mail
Create a text file
Access the Internet
Chat using IRC
Manage your files
Reboot
Power off
While you are doing that Speak-pup will read, to you, what is on the screen. You can use your computer's speakers, or a headset. I prefer a headset myself as it's easier to undertand.
The ISO has all the Gui and stuff that came intalled in Puppy 2.17. It does not run the GUI for the simple reason that I deleted the 'X" symlink in /usr/X11R7/bin, so /etc/profile cannot find it. The symlink is still there, renamed Xcop. You can, if you wish, go to /usr/X11R7/bin and copy Xcop to X, reboot and set up the windowing system. However FreeTTS and YASR are command line programs, and will not work with the GUI operating. But it might come in handy when working on the OS.
If you do want to make changes, ue MP, the text editer, to open /etc/profile. Got down to the bottom of the script and comment out the very last line "exec /root/menu.sh." Reboot and you will be at the commnd line. I would suggest you do this even if you intend to use the GUI. Otherwise, if you use a terminal, you'll be presented with the menu.
I don't know if Brltty is operatng correctly, or even at all. It supposedly supports a soft brailler but I don't have one to test it on.
Speak-pup is very much a work in progress but I need spme input on where to go with it.
http://www.filecrunch.com/user/Trobin
MD5 is 2df2facef90bb1bb31caf55e755428a1 speak-pup.iso
Specifics:
Operating System......................................................................Puppy 2.17
Speech Server............................................................................FreeTTS
Screen Reader............................................................................YASR
Text Editer..................................................................................MP
Intrnet Browser...........................................................................Elinks
IRC Chat.....................................................................................Irssi
File Manager...............................................................................Ytree
Audio...........................................................................................MPG321
Soft Brailler.................................................................................Brltty
ISO size is 148 megabytes.
Speak-pup will load to a simple menu, from which you can opt to:
read your mail
Create a text file
Access the Internet
Chat using IRC
Manage your files
Reboot
Power off
While you are doing that Speak-pup will read, to you, what is on the screen. You can use your computer's speakers, or a headset. I prefer a headset myself as it's easier to undertand.
The ISO has all the Gui and stuff that came intalled in Puppy 2.17. It does not run the GUI for the simple reason that I deleted the 'X" symlink in /usr/X11R7/bin, so /etc/profile cannot find it. The symlink is still there, renamed Xcop. You can, if you wish, go to /usr/X11R7/bin and copy Xcop to X, reboot and set up the windowing system. However FreeTTS and YASR are command line programs, and will not work with the GUI operating. But it might come in handy when working on the OS.
If you do want to make changes, ue MP, the text editer, to open /etc/profile. Got down to the bottom of the script and comment out the very last line "exec /root/menu.sh." Reboot and you will be at the commnd line. I would suggest you do this even if you intend to use the GUI. Otherwise, if you use a terminal, you'll be presented with the menu.
I don't know if Brltty is operatng correctly, or even at all. It supposedly supports a soft brailler but I don't have one to test it on.
Speak-pup is very much a work in progress but I need spme input on where to go with it.
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Hope you sort it
Good luck with this Trobin.
Make sure it is mirrored and on the news page if possible
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LatestNews
Good luck with this Trobin.
Make sure it is mirrored and on the news page if possible
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LatestNews
I want this
It says it's not there for me.
Text to speech is very dear to my heart; unfortunately, it's something done well in a Windows environment, where I have spent many happy hours listening (I'm currently listening to Tom Jones -- not the singer!)
My pet peeve is that TTS is often talked about as if only blind people want it. Not so!
Anyhow, I'll keep trying for this till I get it!
Text to speech is very dear to my heart; unfortunately, it's something done well in a Windows environment, where I have spent many happy hours listening (I'm currently listening to Tom Jones -- not the singer!)
My pet peeve is that TTS is often talked about as if only blind people want it. Not so!
Anyhow, I'll keep trying for this till I get it!
Here is the link I get to the ISO, but I keep getting a file not found error.
http://www.filecrunch.com/file/~5yuncz
Best to all,
David
http://www.filecrunch.com/file/~5yuncz
Best to all,
David
Trobin is working on the upload...Please wait until Trobin announces the upload is complete before trying to get the iso...Thanks all.
Eric
http://puppylinux.ca/members/Seeing-Eye-Puppy/
Eric
http://puppylinux.ca/members/Seeing-Eye-Puppy/
[color=darkred][i]Be not afraid to grow slowly, only be afraid of standing still.[/i]
Chinese Proverb[/color]
Chinese Proverb[/color]
Download Link - PupSpeak.iso
http://puppylinux.ca/members/Seeing-Eye ... ak-pup.iso
http://puppylinux.ca/members/Seeing-Eye ... ak-pup.iso
I wasn't able to complete a download, crappy internet that allowed me to get 25% after an hours download. I will try again later.
For those who did and discovered that they couldn't get to the internet here's a fix.
Boot Speak-pup to the menu
At the menu, press f and enter to start up Ytree, the file manager.
Press 'x" to open up a command line
type 'xorgwizard'
This will set up the GUI windowing system. Set it up as you wish. I chose xvesa and accepted the defaults. I wasn't going to keep it anyway.
Set up the internet as you normally would for Puppy
Use the Rox filemanager to go to the /usr/X11R7/bin directory.
Find the file 'X' A symlink to xwin
Delete 'X'
Close out the rox file manager
Reboot the computer to save the settings.
For those who did and discovered that they couldn't get to the internet here's a fix.
Boot Speak-pup to the menu
At the menu, press f and enter to start up Ytree, the file manager.
Press 'x" to open up a command line
type 'xorgwizard'
This will set up the GUI windowing system. Set it up as you wish. I chose xvesa and accepted the defaults. I wasn't going to keep it anyway.
Set up the internet as you normally would for Puppy
Use the Rox filemanager to go to the /usr/X11R7/bin directory.
Find the file 'X' A symlink to xwin
Delete 'X'
Close out the rox file manager
Reboot the computer to save the settings.
I guess this is the official announcement.
I have no idea of how to announce it on the wikki, so I'll leave that to those who do.
The fix to the internet problems is in the above message.
Okay, I finally managed to complete a download. the md5sum of the file I uploaded matches the md5sum of the file i downloaded.
I have no idea of how to announce it on the wikki, so I'll leave that to those who do.
The fix to the internet problems is in the above message.
Okay, I finally managed to complete a download. the md5sum of the file I uploaded matches the md5sum of the file i downloaded.
Not what I am looking for, but a good try
I finally downloaded it, but the voice is just not what I can live with.
Listen to articles at www.iht.com (each article gives you the choice of listening) and you will hear a truly human-sounding voice with not many flaws.That's what I would like.www.nextup.com also has some good voices, some of which I purchased.
But the nextup voices are mainly for the Windows world, and I think the voice at the iht.com site are only for business use, not for individuals.
So far, I haven't heard what I think of as a decent Linux voice.
Even the Mac has decent voices now, I understand.
So in the Linux world, working with text to speech is a heroic struggle.
Listen to articles at www.iht.com (each article gives you the choice of listening) and you will hear a truly human-sounding voice with not many flaws.That's what I would like.www.nextup.com also has some good voices, some of which I purchased.
But the nextup voices are mainly for the Windows world, and I think the voice at the iht.com site are only for business use, not for individuals.
So far, I haven't heard what I think of as a decent Linux voice.
Even the Mac has decent voices now, I understand.
So in the Linux world, working with text to speech is a heroic struggle.
Lobster just sent me this in an email:
Hi David,
Glad you are getting a lot of interest - clearly a need
sounds good - you might be interested in YAP which is now in Beta . . .
Yes it is set up for my usage to run a Buddhist shrine
BUT it could be adapted for your ISO
DOWNLOAD Beta 1 January 28 2008
13MB
http://www.tmxxine.com/shrine3/YAP.tar.gz
It is designed to be easy to alter.
You can add videos and sound of your choice
(a little study of the code in the first post should help to understand
how easy that would be)
So you could use it to provide podcasts and other teaching
or important info
swf files can be created in open office or wink
videos can be created on your camera and added
A front end introducing your puplet is easy to provide
Just click on YAP and it runs
the script can be edited in Geany
YAP info
http://tmxxine.com/wik/wikka.php?wakka=YapInfo
Also one person recommended this:
I would suggest that you try to incorporate the espeak synthesizer
rather than using festival. The speech is a bit better and there are more
languages available.
http://espeak.sourceforge.net
That's it for now!
Glad we have lots of interest in this project!!!
David
Hi David,
Glad you are getting a lot of interest - clearly a need
sounds good - you might be interested in YAP which is now in Beta . . .
Yes it is set up for my usage to run a Buddhist shrine
BUT it could be adapted for your ISO
DOWNLOAD Beta 1 January 28 2008
13MB
http://www.tmxxine.com/shrine3/YAP.tar.gz
It is designed to be easy to alter.
You can add videos and sound of your choice
(a little study of the code in the first post should help to understand
how easy that would be)
So you could use it to provide podcasts and other teaching
or important info
swf files can be created in open office or wink
videos can be created on your camera and added
A front end introducing your puplet is easy to provide
Just click on YAP and it runs
the script can be edited in Geany
YAP info
http://tmxxine.com/wik/wikka.php?wakka=YapInfo
Also one person recommended this:
I would suggest that you try to incorporate the espeak synthesizer
rather than using festival. The speech is a bit better and there are more
languages available.
http://espeak.sourceforge.net
That's it for now!
Glad we have lots of interest in this project!!!
David
- Lobster
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So far. Create interest. Develop need.So far, I haven't heard what I think of as a decent Linux voice
My G4 sings to me - great funEven the Mac has decent voices now, I understand.
Watch this film. We are penguins.So in the Linux world, working with text to speech is a heroic struggle.
http://wip.warnerbros.com/marchofthepenguins/
Just wanted to apologize to everyone who tried speak-pup and were not able to use email. Elmo is installed in OneBone-210-elinks, and it nevr occured to me that when I upgraded the Puppy Version to 2.17 that Elmo would not come long for the ride. THus there is no email program in speak-pup.
I've downloaded Elmo and tried to instal it in 217, but I get a "segmentation fault" error. I'll have a new iso as soon as I can find a console email clien t that I cn install.
I've downloaded Elmo and tried to instal it in 217, but I get a "segmentation fault" error. I'll have a new iso as soon as I can find a console email clien t that I cn install.