Speech-dispatcher: do any modules/backends support playing sound-icons ?

[Sander Eikelenboom]

Sunday, May 17, 2015, 10:30:31 AM, you wrote:

> Sunday, May 17, 2015, 12:55:55 AM, you wrote:

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>> hi
>> As far as I know, espeak does. The issue is that sond icons are not
>> usually included in speech-dispatcher packages by default, and they're
>> not usually in linux distribution repositories. I remember actually
>> grabbing the sound icons package once, but never got it working. This
>> is one area that might need help from distro maintainers. I can
>> probably get someone to include a sound icons package in arch if it
>> will get at least a little use
>> Thanks
>> Kendell clark

> Added the Debian sound-icons package maintainer and the "Debian Accessibility 
> Team" mailinglist to the CC.

> I'm using Debian Jessie, it has an seperate package for the sound-icons them 
> selves and i have it installed:
> $ dpkg -l | grep speech
> ii  espeak                                1.48.04+dfsg-1                      
> amd64        Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
> ii  espeak-data:amd64                     1.48.04+dfsg-1                      
> amd64        Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: speech data files
> ii  festival                              1:2.1~release-8                     
> amd64        General multi-lingual speech synthesis system
> ii  festival-dev                          1:2.1~release-8                     
> amd64        Development kit for the Festival speech synthesis system
> ii  festlex-poslex                        1.4.0-5                             
> all          Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English
> ii  libespeak-dev:amd64                   1.48.04+dfsg-1                      
> amd64        Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: development files
> ii  libespeak1:amd64                      1.48.04+dfsg-1                      
> amd64        Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: shared library
> ii  libflite1:amd64                       1.4-release-12                      
> amd64        Small run-time speech synthesis engine - shared libraries
> ii  libgsm1:amd64                         1.0.13-4                            
> amd64        Shared libraries for GSM speech compressor
> ii  libopencore-amrnb0:amd64              0.1.3-2.1                           
> amd64        Adaptive Multi Rate speech codec - shared library
> ii  libopencore-amrwb0:amd64              0.1.3-2.1                           
> amd64        Adaptive Multi-Rate - Wideband speech codec - shared library
> ii  libsonic0:amd64                       0.1.17-1.1                          
> amd64        Simple library to speed up or slow down speech
> ii  libspeechd-dev                        0.8-7                               
> amd64        Speech Dispatcher: Development libraries and header files
> ii  libspeechd2:amd64                     0.8-7                               
> amd64        Speech Dispatcher: Shared libraries
> ii  mbrola                                3.01h+1-2                           
> amd64        Multilingual software speech synthesizer
> ii  python3-speechd                       0.8-7                               
> all          Python interface to Speech Dispatcher
> ii  sound-icons                           0.1-3                               
> all          Sounds for speech enabled applications
> ii  speech-dispatcher                     0.8-7                               
> amd64        Common interface to speech synthesizers
> ii  speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins:amd64 0.8-7                               
> amd64        Speech Dispatcher: Audio output plugins
> ii  speech-dispatcher-festival            0.8-7                               
> amd64        Festival support for Speech Dispatcher
> ii  speech-tools                          1:2.1~release-8                     
> amd64        Edinburgh Speech Tools - user binaries

> Double checked and they are in: /usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/ which 
> corresponds
> with the path in speech-dispatchers espeak.conf file.

> Is there by your knowledge an option on package build-time that could be 
> involved (and is perhaps not enabled) ?

> I will try to switch on some more debugging again, see if it comes up with 
> something (can't remember it did last time i tried).

> Thanks for your time !

> --
> Sander

Here is my simple python test script:
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import speechd

ssipclient = speechd.SSIPClient('sound-icon-test', 
socket_path='/run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock')
ssipclient.sound_icon('start')
ssipclient.sound_icon('trumpet-12')
ssipclient.sound_icon('trumpet-12.wav')
ssipclient.close()


But instead of playing the sound of the sound-icon, it reads the name.

I have set debug to 5 and attached the speech-dispatcher logs from running this 
script. With my untrained eye i don't see anything obvious though.

--
Sander


>> Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying out speech-dispatcher and the python module for a
>>> project. Speech works great, but i'm struggling to to get the
>>> "sound-icons" to work. The documentation is rather sparse :-(
>>> 
>>> from /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf it seems that
>>> espeak doesn't support sound-icons, which is a but cryptic since
>>> after that it shows configuration options for sound-icons ?: # --
>>> SOUND ICONS -- # Espeak  does not currently support playing sound
>>> icons # (audio files that are played by name when an application
>>> requests # a sound icon).  If you have installed the free(b)soft
>>> sound-icons # package, this is the directory where will they be
>>> found.  If not # blank, the espeak Output Module will play them if
>>> it finds a # file whose name matches the sound icon name.  If
>>> blank, or no # matching file is found, the name of the sound icon
>>> will be spoken.
>>> 
>>> EspeakSoundIconFolder "/usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/"
>>> 
>>> # Volume at which sound icons are played. EspeakSoundIconVolume 0
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I also tried festival, but still to no avail ..
>>> 
>>> So the first question is .. are there any modules/backends that do
>>> support playing sound-icons ?
>>> 
>>> Hope you can give me a pointer in the right direction !
>>> 
>>> -- Sander
>>> 
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