From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost.localdomain (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77423EA36 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:24:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (IDENT:root@lacrosse.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.154]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2O3Oam28673 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:24:36 -0500 Received: (from mail@localhost) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g2O3Oah28711 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:24:36 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2O3Oai28707 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:24:36 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2O3OZm28669 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:24:35 -0500 Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2O3MNu28333 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:22:23 -0500 Received: from popra?31 (AUTH login) at unknown (HELO prasad) (popra?31@202.56.198.167) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Mar 2002 03:24:33 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c1d2e3$b027ebe0$a7c638ca@prasad> From: "Prasad Chaturvedula" To: References: Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:34:13 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I am sorry, it is for flite and not for Festival. Prasad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" To: Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > Perhaps you're thinking of flite alias festival lite? It's not the same > thing. > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote: > > > What I saw was someone who installed the Festival binaries on Linux and was > > tinkering aound with it. Not Festival with Emacspeak. > > There is a Speech server for Festival to work wth emacspeak. This is the > > missing piece you are talking about. You need to get this and then you can > > use Festival as the speech engine with emacspeak. Yes, there was a message > > reg. this , I think by the author of that speech server. Check out the > > archives. > > > > Prasad > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jack Heim" > > To: > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:44 PM > > Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you > > > seen Festival or Viavoice work? > > > > > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for > > > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find > > > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a > > > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between > > > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found > > > was so vague I couldn't really tell. > > > > > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that > > they > > > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. > > > > > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to > > > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth > > > would defeat the purpose. > > > > > > > > > > > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: > > > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It > > is > > > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > > > > > > > >Prasad > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Jack Heim" > > > >To: > > > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM > > > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it > > last > > > > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it > > > >might > > > > > have been withdrawn. > > > > > > > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > > > > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the > > University > > > > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on > > > >standard > > > > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list mailing list > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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