(Continued ...) To test the festival system, you can try typing this: /usr/src/festival/bin/festival This starts an interactive session with festival. Type the following to test the speech: (SayText "I am testing festival") It should speak the text in quotations. If the compilation or testing of speech tools or festival does not work, read the files called INSTALL in the distribution directories /usr/src/festival and /usr/src/speech_tools Installing Speakup Speakup is a set of patches to the linux kernel. It is assumed that you are familiar with kernel configuration and compilation. See the kernel howto for more information on building kernels. The following instructions explain how to dowload and prepare both speakup and the speakup modifications for sound card. The Speakup Home page is here: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ Get the most recent speakup source code from CVS: cd /usr/src cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS login Password: please cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS checkout speakup You will see a new directory /usr/src/speakup The home page for the speakup modifications for software synthesiser is here: http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux/ Get the speakup modifications http://www.wpi.edu/~blinux/releases/speakup-modifications-20030403.tar.gz You may want to check if there is a more recent release. Check this page for updated release information: http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux/ Extract the speakup modifications cp speakup-modifications-20030403.tar.gz /usr/src cd /usr/src tar xzvf speakup-modifications-20030403.tar.gz Compile the middleware program cd middleware make The next step is to patch the linux kernel with speakup and the modifications for sound card, which are already extracted into the /usr/src/speakup directory. Download the linux kernel source, for example: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.20.tar.gz Prepare the kernel source cp linux-2.4.20.tar.gz /usr/src cd /usr/src tar xzvf linux-2.4.20.tar.gz rm linux ln -s linux-2.4.20 linux cd linux make mrproper Now the kernel needs to be patched with the speakup and modifications for sound card. cd /usr/src/speakup cp install /usr/src cd /usr/src ./install Hopefully you will get a message indicating that the patches were applied without errors. If you get errors you will need to figure out why before proceeding further. (Continued on next message)
