Have you been taking notes on everything you did to get this working? On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Buddy Brannan wrote: > Howdy, > > OK...now here's the latest on my laptop and getting the Festival-enabled Speakup going: > > For some reason, the ALSA drivers won't load. However, the OSS driver > does. So...I have sound. Not only do I have sound, but festival reads > a text file (so it works). I have middleware compiled. However, > speakup doesn't....well...speak up. I do > festival --server & > middleware & > And nothing talks. No errors either. > > Looking in /var/log/syslog; it shows (with an append of > speakup_synth=fest or speakup_synth=festival) that fest (or festival) > is an unknown synthesizer type. However, with no synthesizer > specified, the kernel boots and says it detects a Speakout (which I > don't have). Even so, it still doesn't talk. So. ... What's the synth > keyword? > > Getting closer by the minute-- >
