Compiling-on-Linux.md

compiling on linux

Required tools

To compile RHVoice the following programs must be installed on your system:

• GCC
• Pkg-config
• SCons

Additional dependencies

Before compiling RHVoice make sure that at least one of the following audio libraries is installed on your machine:

• PulseAudio
• Libao
• PortAudio V19

Please note that many distributions provide a separate development package for a library, which is necessary to compile the programs using the library. You need to install both runtime and development packages.

Compilation

To start compilation execute the command:

scons

You can change some compilation options. For more information run the command:

scons -h

Installation

To install RHVoice execute the following commands:

# scons install

Now you can check if the synthesizer is working:

echo test|RHVoice-test

Using RHVoice with Speech Dispatcher

To enable Speech Dispatcher to find the output module which allows it to communicate with RHVoice, create a symlink to the module in the directory where Speech Dispatcher has installed its built-in output modules. For example:

# ln -s /usr/local/bin/sd_rhvoice /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules