From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from imo-m20.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.1]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JbFbe-0003sN-00 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:42:26 -0400 Received: from mwhapples@aim.com by imo-m20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.3.) id f.c59.2936d3e5 (57882) for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:41:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.21.3.70] ([86.54.90.130]) by air-ia04.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILINIA44-e21a47de751c146; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:41:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Slackware and IBM TTS From: Michael Whapples To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20080316021740.GA3790@slackbox.localdomain> References: <20080316021740.GA3790@slackbox.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:41:47 +0000 Message-Id: <1205761307.12978.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 86.54.90.130 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:42:27 -0000 I haven't tried using ibmtts on slackware but would be interested to know how you get on. One tool you may want to look at is rpm2tgz which produces a tgz package from rpm packages. It may or may not work as different distributions do things in different ways and so packages may depend on things not available in distros they weren't designed for. I don't know about if there is a deb2tgz tool. Michael Whapples On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 19:17 -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi, > I've just managed to get Speech-dispatcher, Speechd-up, and Udev > working together in order to use Espeak with Speakup. It was > surprisingly easy. > I bought TTSynth and Voxen a while ago, but they're in .deb and .rpm > respectively. > While I've nothing against Espeak, I was wondering if there was a way to > get the Viavoice working on my system. > I know there's a compatability library I need, but I don't think that's > a problem with Slackware: I'm pretty sure I have it. > Has any Slackware user managed to get either of the packagings of > Viavoice working? If so, how? > Any advice appreciated. > Thanks, > Zack. > > > >