Well, I did test Festival, and it works. The kernel, festivsl, and the middleware all compiled with NO errors. I also tried festival_server, with a modification to the path to make it work, but that didn't help. I haven't however tried tweaking the festival_server script itself. I will try that. Thanks, Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > Lorenzo, > > I'm not sure what would be wrong. Can you test festival > independent of speakup? Can you boot using external synth > and then run festival from the command line and make it > speak properly? Did the speakup patches apply with no > errors? Try using festival_server instead of the --server > flag. Owen mentioned that it's different. I think you can > tweak the configuration settings using that script. > > -- Doug > > > Lorenzo wrote: > > >I need a little help with this festival mod. I followed the documentation > >you sent in the emails, and it compiles perfectly and everything works > >until Festival --server& starts. Actually, that works too, untill I start > >typing in my login information. It then just says f and maybe the first > >character I typed. It continues to do this until I reboot. I can't > >interrupt speech, even by killing Speakup. What went wrong? Please shed > >some light on this if you can. > > > >Thanks, > >Lorenzo > > > >E Pluribus Unix > > > >Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > > > > > I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival > > > from source and then installed speakup with the mods for > > > software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > > > > > > I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed > > > (on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling > > > Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release > > > of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling > > > Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the > > > speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or > > > ViaVoice TTS? > > > > > > -- Doug > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >