Jared:
I've been struggling with this one, as well, for some time now. The best
source I've found yet is:
http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux
Thanks to Steve Holmes for pointing this out.
I understand that yasr or festival (both software synthesizers) will work
with speakup. The site above describes a process for installing the
middleware to run festival. It links to another site in Italian that is no
help to my linguistically challenged head. I have seen no HOW-TO on making
yasr work.
I know that yasr and festival are both available as packages for
Debian. Presumably you could find .rpm's for Redhat as well, if that is
your preference. Apparently the pre-built Redhat and Debian
Speakup-enabled kernels do not support software synthesis and to run
Speakup without a hardware synth it is necessary to build a patched kernel
from source.
That is what I know so far.
If you were to read the "Any expereince w/ Debian Woody Speakup Packages?"
thread, you can see the blow-by-blow of my efforts to install the
middleware described on the page cited above. I'm very close, I
think. But still no jabbering at boot-up or in a shell.
-- Hugh Esco
At 10:43 AM 7/20/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a laptop that I want to install redhat Linux, and speakup on. I don't
>have a hardware synth, or serial ports, so buying a hardware synth is not an
>option. What is the current status of software speech under Linux, I've
>scene a web page but it hasn't been updated for a while. Also I know there
>are two different versions of software speech, and don't know which one to
>chose? Appreciate any info.
