The attached web page will put you on the path of getting ViaVoice. It's the better solution right now, because installing it and getting it working with emacspeak is relatively easy and pretty well documented. On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jack Heim wrote: > 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 have been withdrawn.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 > -- 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