KSpeak - eSpeak TTS porting for kindle

[encol]

Amazon's TTS support is very limitated: Voiceview supports only english language.
So i ported eSpeak, an open source speech synthesizer (http://espeak.sourceforge.net/)
You can use it by command line, or you can use a simple kindlet frontend i made for it.
You can speak a free text or a text file, i'm looking for a command line tool to extract text from epub/mobi/azw/kfx/whatev files (if anyone knows please tell me )
I tested on my PW3 with a cheap usb audio adapter (like this) and some earphones

Install instructions:

1. jailbreak your device
2. extract espeak folder from the tar archive and place it in your extensions folder
3. copy KSpeak.azw2 kindlet in your documents folder
4. connect an usb audio adapter (if kindle says to set your language to english, just ignore it)

hope you enjoy it

[knc1]

Our speaker independent voice recognition system (Vague) includes embedded Flite:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/

You can get the K5 build from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tlmcf5...dded-flite.zip

The KUAL menu item for flite is:
*/extensions/flite
(where else would you expect it?)

[notimp]

Wanted to try it out on my PW3 - I'm getting an "Error while getting voices list: java.security.AccessControlException-", when launching the KSpeak azw2. The rest of the error message is cut off.

[encol]

Is the device Jailbroken?
Go to the /mnt/us/developer/KSpeak/work folder.
There are some log files there. Post them

[notimp]

KSpeak.log
http://pastebin.com/ST7M9pzN

crash.log
http://pastebin.com/r4UkZZd1

And yes - the device is jailbroken. I played around with the PW3s native TTS speech engine in the past, but this error seems to be unrelated..

I'm on 5.8.2 - so an older version of the firmware - but not that old.

[notimp]

Ah, there is no KSpeak_prefs.xml file.

edit: Also the /lib/ld-linux.so.3 file is in place with 777 permissions...

[encol]

Originally Posted by knc1

Our speaker independent voice recognition system (Vague) includes embedded Flite:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/

we can do some comparison now

[encol]

Originally Posted by notimp

Ah, there is no KSpeak_prefs.xml file.

prefs file should be created at the first start. You have security access issues.
Try to reinstall MKK

[notimp]

Originally Posted by encol

prefs file should be created at the first start. You have security access issues.
Try to reinstall MKK

I reinstalled the JailBreak-1.14.N-FW-5.x-hotfix

( https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...postcount=1597 )

- which comes with MKK (made sure of it - renamed the MKK folder to oldmkk, installed hot fix - new MKK folder was created), same issue.

That said KUAL works perfectly an so do about 10 other KUAL extensions I use on a regular basis.

If other people don't come up experiencing the same issue - maybe I'll install MKK from the stand alone package - but I am hesitant, as this is not the recommended way to install MKK on newer Jailbreaks/Firmwares.

[encol]

Have you kterm installed, or you can access via ssh?
If yes, try this:

cd /mnt/us/extensions/espeak/
./espeak.sh english-us "hello world"

[notimp]

Also - as a Test, opened a new pdf in KOReader (started from KUAL), modified some settings, closed KOReader - and sure enough it created a new folder containing the settings file in /mnt/us/documents/

KSpeak.azw2 does nothing but crash. On my PW3 that is.

edit: I can ssh into the device - give me a sec.

[notimp]

Running the command via usb gives me a bunch of errors related to the soundcard not being attached -

http://pastebin.com/KSidfXYW


I'll try kterm next (easier than to setup ssh via wifi just now.. ) - with the soundcard attached.

[notimp]

'hello world' (used single quotes) worked in kterm. (Heard the voice.) Screenshot soon to follow.

[notimp]

Screenshot of kterm executing the command:
http://i.imgur.com/feOjYXW.png

edit: Redownloaded the .azw2 file - moved it to /mnt/us/documents/ via usb, then via sftp (ssh) - same result (so its not related to file corruption or the Mas OS temp file that gets created if you copy it over via usb).

[encol]

Originally Posted by notimp

Also - as a Test, opened a new pdf in KOReader (started from KUAL), modified some settings, closed KOReader - and sure enough it created a new folder containing the settings file in /mnt/us/documents/

KSpeak.azw2 does nothing but crash. On my PW3 that is.

edit: I can ssh into the device - give me a sec.

KOReader is not a kindlet. Kindlets' permissions have to be elevated to access to the fs.

Originally Posted by notimp

Running the command via usb gives me a bunch of errors related to the soundcard not being attached -

and where you attached the sound card?