Mr. Ward, anyone: Thanks for this primer, below. (1) As I am so close on having Speakup / Festival / Middleware working on this machine I'm working on, any ideas what it will take to finish that install successfully? (My progress to date is documented in the thread: "Any experience w/ Debian Woody Speakup Packages?") (2) If I were to install yasr, would it work with Speakup? Would it announce kernel panics during boot-up? (3) I already have eflite 0.3.5-2 working with emacspeak on this box, installed from the .deb packages. Do I still need to re-install it from source? Might this break my emacspeak installation? Can you tell me more about compiling eflite with the appropriate voices? Where would I find those voices? -- Hugh At 08:09 AM 7/21/03 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, Hugh. >To get started using yasr with software speech all you need do is go to: >http://yasr.sourceforge.net >Download the yasr 0.6.4 source, and then grab flite and eflite source which >there are links to. > You would build flite, and then compile eflite using the 16k voices not >the 8k voices, and then set the synth port in yasr.conf, and you have >speech. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Hugh Esco <hesco at greens.org> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 6:55 PM >Subject: Re: current status of software speech with speakup > > > > Please give me more information about how I might install yasr and speakup > > on a Debian system to work without a hardware synthesizer. Thanks. > > > > -- Hugh > > > > At 01:13 PM 7/20/03 -0400, you wrote: > > >Hi, Jared. > > >If you are looking for a software speech solution your best bet is to >pass > > >up speakup, and use a screen reader called yasr with the flite software > > >speech system. > > >A friend of mine is working on rpms for RH 9 for yasr, eflite, and flite, > > >and hopefully in a few days we will have a solution which you can just > > >install the three rpms and have speech up and running. > > >I use yasr on my laptop rather than speakup for the reason it has >software > > >speech and it is a good alternative to speakup when you need software > > >speech. > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: Jared <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com> > > >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > >Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:43 AM > > >Subject: current status of software speech with speakup > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
