Interesting. Well, I actually helped set it up for a friend, and we are still working on the setup. Festival was working fine where viavoice is still having troubles on the persons system. I've been out of the loop for a while and I assume the guys from the Gnome access list must know something I'm not aware of at this time. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:20 PM Subject: OT Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?) > Hi. I've been told twice now on the gnome-accessibility list that > festival is the cause of my Gnopernicus not reading much of the > information in Gnome. How > are you getting around that problem with festival? > > Kenny > > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:31:33AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote: > > In all honesty festival is the better choice here. Viavoice is rapidly > > getting out dated, and it has problems with certain sound cards which makes > > speech real choppy. > > I suggest using festival or freetts with gnopernicus which I have tested > > with the latest build of gnopernicus on a Red Hat 9 system. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:03 AM > > Subject: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?) > > > > > > > I have been unable to get viavoice to do anything -- I installed > > > (using alien) viavoice_tts_rtk_5.tar and viavoice_tts_sdk_5.tar, but > > > when I went into the programs under the samples directory, the > > > cmdlinespeak compiled, but complained loudly that it couldn't create > > > an esi handle and seemed to be looking for esi.ini (on Linux?). > > > Also, the filespeak program wouldn't even compile -- it was > > > complaining about some c++ errors. > > > > > > Has anyone figured out how to get this to work -- I am interested in > > > it for possibly emacspeak and also for gnopernicus access. > > > > > > -- > > > John Covici > > > covici at ccs.covici.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
