Re: festival

["Kyrath. \(AKA Rob\)" <kyrath@cox.net>]

Ok, great.  This is exactly what I came across somewhere.  However, I was 
under the impression that *trashing* the synth meant to actually break it, 
like perhaps destroying the firmware.  I was just concerned about killing 
this synth, especially since its a borrowed one.

-- Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: festival


> Hi.
>
> There is a bug that can trash your hardware synth on com 1, but it should
> only be a problem once.  It only happens when you first set up
> Gnopernicus for a new user.
>
> Basically: when you select "enable screen reader" in the assistive
> technology dialog in desktop preferences, the defaults for Gnopernicus
> will be switched to ones that include a braille display connected to com
> 1.  Just go into the startup preferences dialog of Gnopernicus and
> disable braille support to get Gnopernicus to stop messing with the com
> port.  After you do this, you can switch to a text console and get the
> synth back.
> To get the synth back, just change the speakup default to none, power
> cycle the synth, and then return the speakup default to the hardware
> synth.
>
> The bug has been reported, and it should be fixed "soon".  Like I said,
> it only happens when you first set up Gnopernicus, it won't happen again
> and it won't happen on a system that just runs Gnome without
> Gnopernicus.
>
> Hope this helps.
>          Kenny
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:57:12PM -0800, jim grimsby wrote:
>> Hi, no
>> The problem is when you run gnome whith the screen reader for gnome both 
>> of
>> them as far as I know it kills your speech device because it only
>> understands that a Braille display is on the serial port.  Hth
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca 
>> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
>> On Behalf Of Kyrath. (AKA Rob)
>> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:21 AM
>> To: Speakup
>> Subject: festival
>>
>>
>> In the course of reading various documentation, I came across a warning 
>> that
>> compiling festival, or perhaps some other program that requires festival,
>> can potentially kill a hardware synth.
>>
>> Is this a true risk?
>> I'm looking to compile festival on a slackware 10.1 system with a 
>> doubletalk
>> synth.
>>
>> -- Rob
>>
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