Hi David. Thanks for the info. I downloaded the tools you mentioned and will attempt to install them tomorrow. I'm not partial to festival so will download Flite as soon as I can find it and give that a try. Once again, thanks much. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bruzos" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:02 PM Subject: Re: software synths > Hi: > Actually the software speech for speakup does not come with Fedora. You > will have to configure and install a few things > before you have it running. What comes with Fedora is Festival which is > just a speech synthesizer. Festival is part of > what you need, but it is not all of it. I am writing a document > explaining how to do this, but it is taking forever. > I am putting below a message I posted to someone else about this, so you > can take a look at it. If you have questions, you > can drop me a line directly. > > Here is the message: > > Hi there: > I think you should use "flite", because it is written in C and it is > faster and more responsive than "festival". However, > if you like "festival" better, there is nothing wrong with that... > > To test the synths do: > > 1. $ flite -f /path/to/file > 2. $ festival --tts /path/to/file > > Where /path/to/file is the path to some text file that you want > flite/festival to speek. > > To get speakup working with software speech you will need some other > applications. They are: > 1. speech-dispatcher > 2. speechd_up > > I think you can get speech-dispatcher from your apt-get repos. Speechd_up > you will have to download from its website. I > don't remember what that is. Someone else can tell you that or google > it... > Remember to look at the speech-dispatcher configuration if things are not > working... > > To test speech-dispatcher do: > $ speech-dispatcher > $ spd-say "some text" > > Where "some text" is just some text you want it to speek. > > Now, you have to create the device /dev/softsynth with numbers 10/26. Use > the command: > $ mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26 > > After you have done all of this, run speech-dispatcher: > $ speech-dispatcher > Load the "sftsyn" speakup module into memory: > $ modprobe speakup_sftsyn > and run speechd_up: > $ speechd_up > > Note: you must remove the current speakup_xxxx module from the kernel > before loading the speakup_sftsyn module. Do > something like: > $ rmmod speakup_xxxx > Trying to load both modules at the same time, could crash your box. > > You should have a software speech enabled system at this point. I am > writing a howto on how to do this, but it has taken > me rediculously long to finish it! I guess life/baby/school/etc has > gotten in the way. > > David B. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
