On Thursday 01 March 2018 17:32:14 Fred van Stappen wrote: > > Your Ubuntu installation or your repository setup seems to be broken. > > Maybe ;( > > Did you try with a up-to-date Debian OS ? : > > sudo apt-get install espeak-ng > > Does it install espeak-ng ? > I don't have Debian.
> > Suggestion: build and install it from source. > > Yes, I did it already. And after (lot of) tips, espeak-ng was working. > I did many test espeak vs espeak-ng (executable). > Also test using only libraries. > > Now, after un-installing espeak and espeak-ng, I did try, like common user, > to install the binaries (not compiling all) on a virgin system. > > And with my system (maybe broken): > > sudo apt-get install espeak -----> Ok, espeak is installed. > sudo apt-get install espeak-ng -----> NOT Ok, espeak-ng package not found. > Maybe there is no espeak-ng Debian package or it is in an unofficial repository or in a repository you did not add to your package configuration? > > Espeak project is abandoned and dead, see for example the official > > website: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ > > Huh, on my maybe broken system, I get: > "http://espeak.sourceforge.net is not accessible" > > Strange indeed... > Exactly. AFAIK espeak-ng has been forked because the eSpeak owner could not be contacted anymore. > > pcaudiolib is a small library which provides cross platform audio support > > like portaudio. > > https://github.com/rhdunn/pcaudiolib > > Hum, nice (but no comparaison with the huge number of cross-platform that > Portaudio can do). > pcaudiolib supports the platforms which espeak-ng supports. > >> Also for the quality of sound, my ears prefer the result of espeak vs > >> espeak-ng. > > > > That is strange, you should submit your findings as bug reports: > > ;-) > > Yes my ears are very strange... > It is strange that it sounds different because espeak-ng actually is the same codebase with a better API and some cleanup. Do you really compare the same voices, variants and language files? Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
