Of course I have speech! Go get the program working with Festival
as well as the Main Menu demo before you make any
more comments.
Kenny
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 06:13:01AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> IS festival speaking to you when you start gnopernicus?If it isn't try
> passing a variable before starting.
>
> export FESTIVAL=1
>
> The gnopernicus compilation was actually for a friend on his system with
> some outside help. We did get it working, but since my friend is out of town
> for a few days I won't be able to fully test it until he returns.
> If I get it working as well as the main menu program I'll be happy to send
> you the ~/.gconf/app/gnopernicus directory.
> Hth.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt at knology.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 6:33 PM
> Subject: Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)
>
>
> > Hi. I'm also getting nothing using Gnopernicus and festival. I have
> > accessibility turned on.
> > What does "farely well" mean? For example, does your Gnopernicus and
> > festival speak as well as the demo on the last Main Menu? My setup
> > doesn't even come close to providing the info that that demo does.
> >
> > If your setup talks as well as the Main Menu demo, would you mind
> > sending me your ~/.gconf/apps/gnopernicus directory?
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> > > Hi, gnopernicus works farely well with gedit, mozilla, and various other
> > > gnome applications assuming it is properly configured.
> > > For example: have you turned gnomes accessibility framework on? Allot of
> > > people forget to set this to true, and gnopernicus works porely.
> > > >From your bash prompt type:
> > > gconftool-2 -s -t /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true
> > > Try that and see if that is why gnopernicus is working porely.
> > > My usage of gnopernicus has been only done on RH 8 and soon a 9.0 box of
> my
> > > own and I'm not sure about how well it operates on Debian.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Thomas Stivers <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:53 PM
> > > Subject: Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice
> go?)
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 05/09/03 11:31 AM -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.
> > > >
> > > > I have been working with gnopernicus with festival on a debian system
> and
> > > have had
> > > > next to no luck getting it to do anything useful. I can get the thing
> to
> > > > talk, but the documentation (if you can call it that) leaves much to
> be
> > > > desired. Perhapse we should pool our resources and hire them a
> bilingual
> > > > person for documentation, but anyhow, what tasks have you been able to
> > > > perform with gnopernicus, and what resource have you been using to
> > > > figure it out? Thank you for any help you can provide. I apologise for
> > > > sounding off about things, but I have been seeing vaporware for
> > > > gnopernicus and the *wonderful* world of xwindows since last summer
> and
> > > > I have yet to really access anything with it.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends
> more
> > > > carefully than others.
> > > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD
> > > >
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