Perhaps you're thinking of flite alias festival lite? It's not the same thing. On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote: > What I saw was someone who installed the Festival binaries on Linux and was > tinkering aound with it. Not Festival with Emacspeak. > There is a Speech server for Festival to work wth emacspeak. This is the > missing piece you are talking about. You need to get this and then you can > use Festival as the speech engine with emacspeak. Yes, there was a message > reg. this , I think by the author of that speech server. Check out the > archives. > > Prasad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:44 PM > Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > 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 have been withdrawn.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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org