Hi: I am not sure what you mean by "not partial of festival", but if what you mean is that you don't like its voice, then you got a problem, because flite is not any better. However, flite is faster/more-responsive than festival, so if your problem is speed, flite will help. You can get a flite rpm that works in FC3 from the altlinux distribution. I don't remember the web address, but if you search the speakup archives, you will find it. The names of the files you need are: flite-1.2-alt3.i586.rpm flite-devel-1.2-alt3.i586.rpm HTH! David B. On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:53PM -0500, Rock Bazzle wrote: > 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 at bruzos.org> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
