[9d2dc4e2] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY gnome-speech-download-http "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-speech/0.3/gnome-speech-&gnome-speech-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY gnome-speech-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-speech/0.3/gnome-speech-&gnome-speech-version;.tar.bz2">
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[7a9a72e8] | 9 | <!ENTITY gnome-speech-md5sum "34382d0b33146b1f8fc5239895471369">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY gnome-speech-size "255 KB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY gnome-speech-buildsize "4.6 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY gnome-speech-time "0.15 SBU">
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[9d2dc4e2] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[bdce304] | 15 | <sect1 id="gnome-speech" xreflabel="GNOME Speech-&gnome-speech-version;">
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[a0f03b0] | 16 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 17 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 18 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[a0f03b0] | 19 | </sect1info>
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[bdce304] | 20 | <?dbhtml filename="gnome-speech.html"?>
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| 21 | <title>GNOME Speech-&gnome-speech-version;</title>
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| 22 |
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[9d2dc4e2] | 23 | <sect2>
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[7a9a72e8] | 24 | <title>Introduction to <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym>
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| 25 | Speech</application></title>
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[9d2dc4e2] | 26 |
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| 27 | <para>
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[7a9a72e8] | 28 | The <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application> package
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| 29 | provides a simple general <acronym>API</acronym> for producing text-to-speech
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[9d2dc4e2] | 30 | output. Multiple backends are supported by the
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| 31 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application> library, but
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[7a9a72e8] | 32 | currently only the <application>Festival</application> backend is built by
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| 33 | default; the other backends require either Java or proprietary software.
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[9d2dc4e2] | 34 | </para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 37 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 38 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 39 | url="&gnome-speech-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 40 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 41 | url="&gnome-speech-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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| 42 | <listitem><para>Download size: &gnome-speech-size;</para></listitem>
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[bd0a1b0] | 43 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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[9d2dc4e2] | 44 | &gnome-speech-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 45 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 46 | &gnome-speech-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 47 | </sect3>
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[bd0a1b0] | 48 |
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[7a9a72e8] | 49 | <sect3><title><application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application>
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| 50 | dependencies</title>
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[9d2dc4e2] | 51 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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[7a9a72e8] | 52 | <para><xref linkend="libbonobo"/></para>
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| 53 | </sect4>
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| 54 |
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[9d2dc4e2] | 55 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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[7a9a72e8] | 56 | <para><xref linkend="java-access-bridge"/>,
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| 57 | <ulink url="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/">Festival</ulink>,
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| 58 | <ulink url="http://freetts.sourceforge.net/">FreeTTS</ulink>,
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| 59 | <ulink url="http://www.ibm.com/software/voice/viavoice/">ViaVoice</ulink>,
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| 60 | <ulink url="http://www.scansoft.com/">Eloquence</ulink>,
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| 61 | <ulink url="http://www.fonix.com/">DECTalk</ulink> and
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| 62 | <ulink url="http://www.cepstral.com/">Theta</ulink></para>
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| 63 | </sect4>
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[9d2dc4e2] | 64 | </sect3>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | </sect2>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <sect2>
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[7a9a72e8] | 69 | <title>Installation of <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym>
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| 70 | Speech</application></title>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <note><para>You must install at least one of the backend drivers for
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| 73 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application> to render speech
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| 74 | through the audio hardware. Testing the installation of the backend driver
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| 75 | to ensure it produces desired results before installing
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| 76 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application> is
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| 77 | recommended.</para></note>
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[9d2dc4e2] | 78 |
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[7a9a72e8] | 79 | <para>Install <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application> by
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| 80 | running the following commands:</para>
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[9d2dc4e2] | 81 |
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| 82 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` &&
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| 83 | make &&
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| 84 | make install</command></userinput></screen>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | </sect2>
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| 87 |
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[7a9a72e8] | 88 | <sect2>
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| 89 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <para><option>--with-jab-dir=`pkg-config
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| 92 | --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/share/jar</option>: Use this option if you
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| 93 | have installed the <application>Java Access Bridge</application> package and
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| 94 | wish to have <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application> build
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| 95 | in Java support.</para>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <para>Note: see the <filename>README</filename> and
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| 98 | <filename>INSTALL</filename> files in the package source tree for the correct
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| 99 | parameters to pass to <command>configure</command> to enable the desired
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| 100 | backends.</para>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | </sect2>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | <sect2>
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| 105 | <title>Testing the installation</title>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | <para>You can test all the available backend drivers, voices and audio
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| 108 | hardware using the <command>test-speech</command> command. Invoking
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| 109 | <command>test-speech</command> produces a menu allowing you to select
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| 110 | a backend driver, then prompts you (with on-screen prompts and text-to-speech
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| 111 | audio) for additional information.</para>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | </sect2>
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| 114 |
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[9d2dc4e2] | 115 | <sect2>
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| 116 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para>The <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym> Speech</application>
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| 119 | package contains
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| 120 | <command>festival-synthesis-driver</command>,
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| 121 | <command>test-speech</command> and
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[7a9a72e8] | 122 | <filename class="libraryfile">libgnomespeech</filename>. Other drivers
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| 123 | and libraries are also installed if you have enabled additional
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| 124 | backends.</para>
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[9d2dc4e2] | 125 |
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| 126 | </sect2>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 129 |
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[7a9a72e8] | 130 | <sect3><title>test-speech</title>
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| 131 | <para><command>test-speech</command> is used to test the various backend
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| 132 | drivers and voices installed on the system.</para>
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| 133 | </sect3>
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| 134 |
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[9d2dc4e2] | 135 | <sect3><title>libgnomespeech</title>
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| 136 | <para><filename class="libraryfile">libgnomespeech</filename> provides
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| 137 | the <acronym>API</acronym> for programs to convert text into
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[7a9a72e8] | 138 | speech.</para>
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| 139 | </sect3>
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[9d2dc4e2] | 140 |
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| 141 | </sect2>
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[bdce304] | 142 |
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| 143 | </sect1>
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