Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival. I helped one of the two projects that can do so. See the group website at http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info. The code is currently working but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the summer. The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the boot process. Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no longer strictly required for day-to-day usage. HtH Owen Smith ender3rd at wpi.edu On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote: > Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with > a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte? I built a Debian machine > with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine. I'd love to make it > possible for him to hear the computer from startup. But I had understood > that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that > would be possible. Was I mistaken? > > -- Hugh Esco >
