Hi. Did gnome-speech build the DECtalk server? Since DECtalk is commercial software, you have to build Gnome-speech locally after you install DECtalk before you can use it with Gnopernicus. Hope this helps. Kenny On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:37:37PM -0700, seth creature wrote: > Hi all: > I have a couple of questions about DECtalk software and gnopernicus. The > first, is that while in X I do the alt-f2 then type gnopernicus, and after > getting no responce that I can detect, I jumped back to a console and > checked to see of in fact gnopernicus is even running, and acording to ps > x it is. I have installed the dectalk software, but maybe not in the > correct directory, one was never specified as far as I know. I got the > say command to work with both quoted text and a text file in the console, > and wonder what I might need also to do to get this critter to run with > gnopernicus. Also Festival seems to be happy in a text console according > to the instructions for testing, but I can't get that to work with > gnopernicus either. I am still using slackware 10.1. Any help would be > appreciated, probably best off list, as I am sure that everyone here is > tired of hearing about gnopernicus... Thanks much. > Cheereo! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup