yyou need to get and install festival. when you are dropped back to your prompt that means something didn't work. if everything is installed festival should start talking and read a menu of config tests for you to perform. for instructions on building festival and configuring for gnopernicus visit http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/gnopernicus.html hth On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:47:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or > anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the > gnome-speech package. > > When I run test-speech, I get: > > 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2 > > > When I hit 1, I get : > Atempting to activate > OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2. > > Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that > things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival, > then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to > need to build it from source? > Thanks. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:54:45PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > I didn't need to configure x at all on my slack 9.1 system. Once I > > installed x and gnome I ran pkgtool, chose the setup option, and reran > > the x window manager selection script. I chose gdm and the default and > > now all I need to do is run startx and gnome loads up fine. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
