I tried building speech_tools and festival both current versions for slackware 13.0 with all available festlex and festvox packages and the build failed. When I make an attempt to do this again I'll have script running and send the output to the emacspeak list. I wanted to build these packages so I could get eflite running and have all of that software use my sound card for speech which is alsa. The reason I didn't use script in the first place is I wasn't expecting this kind of failure when doing the build on this set of packages. For those on the emacspeak list that don't yet know about it yet, Slackware as of April 29, 2011 is now up to Slackware version 13.37 and it has linux kernel images from 2.6.37-2.6.39 in it. More later if I figure it out.
