Phomenizer calls async loud.

[bfrisco-raft]

Describe the bug
phonemize calls Espeak audio out when not needed.

ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5703:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Calling espeak in a container when only needing PCM binary still attempts to request audio source.

The following command
espeak-ng "Hello World" -w output.wav

Does not require a card, and will return PCM directly to wave file.

Could this be changed to call quiet in main located
here

System
Linux/amd64 container

To reproduce
Call phonemizer.phonemize in linux with no ALSA default PCM

It seems hex 2 is called instead of hex 1 for Synchronous no speak
Initialized as Asynchronous

[hexgrad]

Is this something that can be fixed in misaki or does it need to be addressed in https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer instead?

[bfrisco-raft]

It would guess it is primarily a Phonemizer issue, however, I noticed Misaki or Kokoro is now using Phonemizer-fork since there has been radio silence from Phonemizer main.

I brought this issue up, because of update blow my comment here,
bootphon/phonemizer#44 (comment)

Let me know where I should move this issue, if this is not the right place.

[hexgrad]

Thanks for the heads up, feel free to leave this issue open until its resolved.

fyi @thewh1teagle

[thewh1teagle]

It would guess it is primarily a Phonemizer issue, however, I noticed Misaki or Kokoro is now using Phonemizer-fork since there has been radio silence from Phonemizer main.

I brought this issue up, because of update blow my comment here, bootphon/phonemizer#44 (comment)

Let me know where I should move this issue, if this is not the right place.

See in my Github the repository
I need to fix the URLs in the package

[bfrisco-raft]

It would guess it is primarily a Phonemizer issue, however, I noticed Misaki or Kokoro is now using Phonemizer-fork since there has been radio silence from Phonemizer main.
I brought this issue up, because of update blow my comment here, bootphon/phonemizer#44 (comment)
Let me know where I should move this issue, if this is not the right place.

See in my Github the repository I need to fix the URLs in the package

It should be the value 0x00, here

line 89

 if self._library.espeak_Initialize(0x02, 0, None, 0) <= 0:

see the explanation of the issue here.
bootphon/phonemizer#197

NOTE: This is also in the original Phonemizer code, it was not designed to bypass the audio out.
However, this is not needed and causes errors in containers.

ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5703:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5703:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.front
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround21
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround21
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround40
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround41
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround50
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround51
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline

[thewh1teagle]

You can create PR to pass optional parameter to control it (but keep the default behavior)

[bfrisco-raft]

This will require an update to Misaki as well, there must be an adjustment to enabling the API through the wrapper.

I added a method which will be able to load the appropriate flag the change the logic.

Found it has to do with the API calling espeak_initalize(), where the espeak-ng CLI only calls three functions.

• espeak_ng_InitializeOutput
• espeak_ng_InitializePath
• speak_ng_GetSampleRate

This prevents the PCM card from being called elsewhere.

	if (option_waveout || quiet) {
		// writing to a file (or no output), we can use synchronous mode
		result = espeak_ng_InitializeOutput(ENOUTPUT_MODE_SYNCHRONOUS, 0, devicename[0] ? devicename : NULL);
		samplerate = espeak_ng_GetSampleRate();
		samples_split = samplerate * samples_split_seconds;

		espeak_SetSynthCallback(SynthCallback);

	if (p_text != NULL) {
		int size;
		size = strlen(p_text);
		espeak_Synth(p_text, size+1, 0, POS_CHARACTER, 0, synth_flags, NULL, NULL);

[bfrisco-raft]

@hexgrad
How would you like me to incorporate this as a option.
The issue being, if you call it this way it does not attempt to call the audio card. This is how its called internally if you use '-w'
Calling it through espeak_initialize() causes the ASLA error.