gconftool-2 -s -t /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true Try that and see if that is why gnopernicus is working porely. My usage of gnopernicus has been only done on RH 8 and soon a 9.0 box of my own and I'm not sure about how well it operates on Debian. ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Stivers <stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:53 PM Subject: Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?) > On 05/09/03 11:31 AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote: > > In all honesty festival is the better choice here. Viavoice is rapidly > > getting out dated, and it has problems with certain sound cards which makes > > speech real choppy. > > I suggest using festival or freetts with gnopernicus which I have tested > > with the latest build of gnopernicus on a Red Hat 9 system. > > I have been working with gnopernicus with festival on a debian system and have had > next to no luck getting it to do anything useful. I can get the thing to > talk, but the documentation (if you can call it that) leaves much to be > desired. Perhapse we should pool our resources and hire them a bilingual > person for documentation, but anyhow, what tasks have you been able to > perform with gnopernicus, and what resource have you been using to > figure it out? Thank you for any help you can provide. I apologise for > sounding off about things, but I have been seeing vaporware for > gnopernicus and the *wonderful* world of xwindows since last summer and > I have yet to really access anything with it. > > -- > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more > carefully than others. > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
