Mike, > I read the message about getting viavoice working on Slackware 9.1 and > tried to follow directions. There were tons of errors. Guess ttsynth is > a bust after all as I'll probably never get working. Most likely the reason is that you're not on slackware 9.1, so you have newer versions of gcc, glibc, and binutils, and when you tried to compile the old glibc it ... gave you tons of errors. As I said earlier, these toolchains are very tricky compatibility wise. It is most likely still possible but would require more work that I did three years ago because the current system at that time was still compatible with the glibc for compilation. I plan to try to do a more recent build with slackware 11.0 in the near future, so I may have updated instructions at some point, but I can't make any promises because it takes a lot of experimentation to do those toolchain builds. If you really want that old tts engine to work, it may actually be easier to go with the supported distros like debian or ubuntu. I think IBM made a fairly huge mistake when they packaged this engine. -- Doug
