I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you seen Festival or Viavoice work? I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found was so vague I couldn't really tell. I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that they use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth would defeat the purpose. At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It is >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > >Prasad > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it >might > > have been withdrawn. > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the University > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on >standard > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list