Re: OT Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>]

Interesting. Well, I actually helped set it up for a friend, and we are
still working on the setup. Festival was working fine where viavoice is
still having troubles on the persons system.
I've been out of the loop for a while and I assume the guys from the Gnome
access list must know something I'm not aware of at this time.


----- Original Message -----
From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:20 PM
Subject: OT Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)


> Hi.  I've been told twice now on the gnome-accessibility list that
> festival is the cause of my Gnopernicus not reading much of the
> information in Gnome.  How
> are you getting around that problem with festival?
>
>           Kenny
>
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:31:33AM -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.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:03 AM
> > Subject: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)
> >
> >
> > > I have been unable to get viavoice to do anything -- I installed
> > > (using alien) viavoice_tts_rtk_5.tar and viavoice_tts_sdk_5.tar, but
> > > when I went into the programs under the samples directory, the
> > > cmdlinespeak compiled, but complained loudly that it couldn't create
> > > an esi handle and seemed to be looking for esi.ini (on Linux?).
> > > Also, the filespeak program wouldn't even compile -- it was
> > > complaining about some c++ errors.
> > >
> > > Has anyone figured out how to get this to work -- I am interested in
> > > it for possibly emacspeak and also for gnopernicus access.
> > >
> > > --
> > >          John Covici
> > >          covici@ccs.covici.com
> > >
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