You need to run: test-speech first. That will allow you to test any Gnopernicus capable speech server available under /usr/share slash whatever it is to the Gnome-Speech drivers. I'm sorry, I don't remember the precise path. gnome-speech is provided in rpm. test-speech is in /usr/bin so is pathed. showell at lrxms.net writes: > From: showell at lrxms.net > > Folks, > > I am interested in trying this out. I am using Fedora 1.0 and everything > appears to be installed. The question I have and haven't been able to > determine from the docs is this. First in the GNopernicus documentation > I found on the web it refers to gnome-speech, but I haven't located this > and it apparently is a program. I'll have to go back over the docs to > refresh my memory of its purpose, but I guess until I find it that won't > matter much.<grin> Can someone tell me if this thing exists and where I > might locate it? I might be digging in the wrong place or searching for > it incorrectly, but maybe its something else. > Ok the other question is do I need to launch festival in server mode > prior to running startx or does it get launched as a part of the > Gnopernicus startup process. I haven't found anything that says one way > or the other, but then I'm not surprised as perhaps its assumed the > speech server/whatever is already running. This again could be a > missconception on my part. > Oh lastly, I reconfigured the box to start in runlevel 3 instead of 5 so > I can just run startx. I did run this lastnight my wife mentioned the > screen was blank. It was not blank when the runlevel was set to 5 and I > ran startx. Any ideas? > > tia > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org