Problem with Stardict Pronunciation

English Applications
#1

For activating human pronunciation I always install WyabdcRealPeopleTTS in stardict; but normally that feature doesn’t work in Gnome and I should go to sound section and check “Use TTS Program” and write “aplay %s” in Commandline till human pronunciation works but in openSUSE 11.2 (KDE) these methods don’t work. I install QStardict in openSUSE and use this method and it works in QStardit but not in Stardict. I prefer stardict and looking for a way for activating it in stardict. Can anyone help me?

#2

Is there any error message?
I install stardict from Education repository.
and remove stardict_espeak.so stardict_festival.so in
/usr/lib(64)/stardict/plugins/
follow the qstardict wiki
use pronounce-word.sh to pronounce words with WyabdcRealPeopleTTS
But my WyabdcRealPeopleTTS is placed in /usr/share/stardict/WyabdcRealPeopleTTS
so you have to modify the TTS_PATH

try
bash /path to/pronounce-word.sh something
paste output here.

my output:
bash bin/pronounce-word.sh something

/usr/share/stardict/WyabdcRealPeopleTTS/s/something.wav:

File Size: 8.56k Bit Rate: 88.7k
Encoding: Unsigned PCM
Channels: 1 @ 8-bit
Samplerate: 11025Hz
Replaygain: off
Duration: 00:00:00.77

In:100% 00:00:00.77 [00:00:00.00] Out:37.1k -=|=- ] Hd:3.3 Clip:0
Done.

#3

Hi swyear,

Thanks for your reply. I install stardict from repository too and as you mentioned I remove stardict_festival.so and stardict_espeak.so.bak (I don’t have stardict_espeak.so). Here is my output:

$: bash ~/.pronounce-word.sh something
/usr/share/WyabdcRealPeopleTTS/s/something.wav:

 File Size: 8.56k     Bit Rate: 88.7k
  Encoding: Unsigned PCM
  Channels: 1 @ 8-bit
Samplerate: 11025Hz
Replaygain: off
  Duration: 00:00:00.77

In:100%  00:00:00.77 [00:00:00.00] Out:37.1k     -=|=-    ] Hd:3.2 Clip:0
Done.

but in stardict it didn’t work. I run stardict from terminal and I don’t see any errors. I use 64 bit openSUSE 11.2.

#4

I found the problem! I should click on “Command TTS” not “Real People TTS”. Is there a way that “Command TTS” become the default or I assign this settings to “Real People TTS”?

#5

My problem solved completely! I remove all path in “RealPeopleTTS search path:” in sound section. Now I have CommandTTS and It’s my default pronunciation.