Hello, I'll switch to espeak after I've gotten it working--flite/festival are the supported ones right now in the config. The speech-dispatcher log is empty as are the festival and flite logs. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler at tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Irving" <alastair.irving@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: RE: a quick question > Is there anything useful in the logs under /var/log/speech-dispatcher? > > I haven't used festival for some time, but you may need to install > festival-freebsoft utils. Alternatively, use espeak which is generally > much > more responsive than festival. > > HTH > > Alastair Irving > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield > Sent: 20 June 2008 17:33 > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: a quick question > > > Hello list, > I've finally got everything up and running again, and have been doing some > playing around. I'd like to get software speech going, so I can continue > my > origenal idea of compiling a kernel. I started reading docks, and got as > far > as speech-dispatcher I've installed it, and spd-say "Hello" just hangs. as > well as using hello without the quotes. I've rebooted the service via > init.d > ./speech-dispatcher restart, and also changed the synths from flite to > festival, and back again to make sure that it wasn't just the synth. > Festival works perfect--I'm just having trouble communicating with the > synth > via spd-say. Any ideas why its hanging? The docs on getting software > speech > working with speakup was rather vague. I've also got an issue with ssh, > that > I thought may be able to be fixed here. When I'm compiling, reading > nampages, etc I see a lot of euros a-circumflex marks all over. Is there > something wrong with my terminal? Not sure why it's showing that. Thanks > for > the help in advance, Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software > and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for > programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net > msn: tyler at tysdomain.com > skype: st8amnd127 _______________________________________________ > 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 > > __________ NOD32 3203 (20080620) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >
