there are good instructions on installing festival at http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/gnopernicus.html. On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:12:12AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Is it possible to use flite instead of festival? I would like to dabble > with emacspeak a bit and I understand one cannot use festival with > it. But since I can't get flite to compile here, that might be a moot > point anyhow. Do I have to beware of any special tricks or hints to > install festival? > > I'm running Slackware 9.1 here and do not mind compiling and > installing from sources. That would probably be much easier than > trying to force in a debian package or some such. > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:18:30PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote: > > As far as a free software synth festival is the best there is right now. If > > you want a synth that sounds better there is the Dectalk software from Fonix > > which costs about $50, but one problem is that is very slow while editing > > text documents in gedit where festival is very prompt for me. As for > > festival sounding like a chipmunk I can tell you that is not normal > > behavior. There can be one of two problems here. > > > > 1. Configuring the speech rate, pitch etc.. If you haven't already done so > > switch to layer 8 and configure your speech to how you want it to sound. > > 2. Some sound cards under Fedora don't get properly configured causing sound > > cards to make speech sound very strange. I tried Fedora a while back and my > > dectalk software sounded like a chipmunk no matter what I did to set the > > pitch and rate, but when I removed Fedora and put Mandrake 9.2 on the > > problem totally vanished. So there seams to be something up with Fedora and > > soundcards. > > In fact, every software speech system I tried had the same problems under > > Fedora, and the all work fine on the same computer with Mandrake. Any > > conclusions? > -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
