festival

festival

[Kyrath. (AKA Rob)]

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

Re: festival

[mikster4]

I don't see any reason festival would do this. I think in the past I 
have compiled festival on slackware and not had any problem with 
hardware synths. If you are unsure then you can use the RPM's with 
the rpm2tgz tool, I know this works.
Mike
Kyrath. (AKA Rob) writes:

> 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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RE: festival

[jim grimsby]

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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Re: festival

[Kenny Hitt]

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
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> 
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Re: festival

[Kyrath. (AKA Rob)]

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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>>
>>
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>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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RE: festival

[jim grimsby]

No it will not brake the sinthasizer it might lock it up tell a restart but
it should not brake it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Kyrath. (AKA Rob)
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 8:10 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: festival


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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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festival

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Hi all,
Attached is a message I wrote a few minutes ago concerning the festival 
packages. I'm sending it again because I forgot to include a proper 
subject on the last one. Sorry about that.

-- 
Joseph C. Lininger
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:07:55 -0600 (MDT)
From: Joseph C. Lininger <jbahm@pcdesk.net>
To: Speakup List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>

I all,
I am working on the festival packages, and I had a question for those of 
you using Slackware. Should I include the mbrola voices? The reason I 
ask is because these are not GPL. I can either include them, not include 
them, or distribute them as a seperate package. What is everyone's 
opinion on this?
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