[ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

This is my first attempt to write an app for the Maemo platform, hope it works for you and won't break anything of your Nokia device :p. Features of this app are listed below:

• A Hildon/Gtk+ GUI client written in Python for eSpeak, the open source command-line text-to-speech tool.
• Selection of 49 languages, including voice packs that are still in experimental status (default English)
• Amplitude (0 to 199, default 100) adjustment.
• Pitch (0 to 99, default 50) adjustment.
• Speed (words per minute, 80-390, default 170) adjustment.
• Word Gap (in milliseconds, 0-20, default 10) adjustment.
• Opening a text file and loading its contents to the text box for editing and speaking.
• Direct pasting text contents to the text box for editing and speaking (no need to press Ctrl-V)
• One-click-clearing text contents of the text box
• Saving the speech to a .Wav file.
• Speak multiple sentences simultaneously new
• Stop speaking at any time new
• Toggling between Full Screen / Window mode.
• Portrait Mode Support (experimental).
• Saving the language/amplitude/pitch/speed/word gap selection when program exits, and loads them back when program launches automatically.
• Supports multi-language user interfaces based on the Device Language selected. (Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English UIs will be provided initially)

You can now download this app from maemo extras-devel repository.

This app is a very rough one and it will take some time to fix the major issues before it can be practically usable. Feel free to report issues and suggest enhancements that you would like to have :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

Very nice. Please register to this competition.

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I just tried it, looks cool. Only thing that bothers me is that I can't select words with stylus.

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Well, I tried installing and it's not showing under "More".

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Thanks. Registered :D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

If it installs correctly, you should see the red lips "eSpeak GUI Client" icon when you click "More..."

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

What is the name of the app? There are a couple of Espeak apps under applications.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

"eSpeak GUI Client"

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

It's crashing automatically after 5 seconds.

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Can you make the Speak button to turn into Stop button while it's speaking. There's no way to stop it as far as I can see and pressing Speak again just adds another one to the queue.I had to wait for it saying "Hot tamale, hot hot tamale, hot tamale, hot hot!" 10 times :D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

Really great job:) Work excellent.
I discovered that one icon is missing:
This one close to "red lips":)
http://i47.tinypic.com/2u57rwk.png

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

Any inputs why it is crashing after 5 seconds on my N900?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

Is your user folder /home/user ?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

I notice this too. It's a typo in the rules file... will get this fixed in the next update.

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I will add a Stop button in the next update...but not sure if that will work well :p

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

I don't know what you mean by this. I haven't changed anything on my Phone. Everything is the way it should be by default.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

hmm, would you mind opening X Terminal and type the following...

cd /opt/eSpeakGUI/
python eSpeakGUI.py

and see what it says?

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It says -

Traceback (most recent call last) :
File "eSpeakGUI.py", Line 24, in <module>
from portrait import FremantleRotation
File "home/opt/eSpeakGUI/portrait.py", Line 20, in <module>
import bus
ImportError: No module named dbus

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Looks like you don't have the python-dbus library installed. Perhaps you can try the following in X Terminal?

sudo apt-get install python-dbus
sudo apt-get install python2.5-dbus

and once that gets installed, try to relaunch the program again?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

I got some errors while trying to install. Python 2.5 xml missing etc.

I think I have to wait for PR 1.2!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

I think that's not related to PR1.2, as I'm still using PR1.1.1.
Perhaps some of your Python libraries installation weren't complete...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] eSpeak GUI Client
 

Hmmm PR 1.2 has those packages AFAIK.