Unfortunately I haven't been following this list very closely lately and I can't find the thread in the archives so if you could give me a summarry of your status with the middleware program I'll try to help. Owen Smith ender3rd at wpi.edu On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Hugh Esco wrote: > Greetings: > > I put these questions a few days ago and the first one in a number of ways > over a week ago but still have seen no answers that instill in me the > confidence to move forward. Any and all help is appreciated. > > (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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >