Jim: The gnopernicus speech driver is a package, also currently available via cvs, called gnome-speech. It can use at least the Sun Java TTS, Festival, and/or ViaVoice. The last one is interesting, suggesting that maybe ViaVoice will be back. jwantz at hpcc.noaa.gov writes: > > Hi Janina, > Thanks for this information. Now, will Gnopernicus use Festival, or > Hi Janina, > Thanks for this information. Now, will Gnopernicus use Festival, or > Flite? > > Jim Wantz WB0TFK > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Emacspeak doesn't work with Festival. And, even if it did, you'd need to specify the appropriate intermediary "speech server" for emacspeak. > > > > What it does work with is called Festival Lite, or Flite for short. The speech server you need is by Mike Gorse and is called eflite. You compile in > > that order, then read the eflite docs to get the appropriate incantation. I put mine in a shell script called e. Everything you need is at: > > > > http://eflite.sf.net > > > > jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov writes: > > > From: jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov > > > > > > Hi, > > > Sorry about the off topic post. I am trying to get emacspeak to work. I > > > at first thought that when you invoked emacspeak that it would bring up my > > > festival server. I then tried: > > > festival --tts --server & > > > emacspeak > > > Of course I killed speakup in the emacspeak console. Well, emacspeak > > > doesn't speak. What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
