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

[Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>]

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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