* Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS @ Garry Turkington ` Tyler Littlefield ` Kelly Prescott 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Garry Turkington @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi all, Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's not hit my inbox or the archives. I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of the server variants out there. With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use software speech -- and especially with my preference for some commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up working. This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear of a time getting that to work. So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. Thoughts? Thanks, Garry ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS Garry Turkington @ ` Tyler Littlefield ` Kelly Prescott 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Tyler Littlefield @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. hello, Speakup now comes with espeakup, which does what speech-dispacher and speechd-up is supposed to. On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's > not hit my inbox or the archives. > > I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using > CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained > reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. > > In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment > die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among > other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some > rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which > will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. > Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of > the server variants out there. > > With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably > trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use > software speech -- and especially with my preference for some > commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up > working. > > This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have > any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the > dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it > looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. > Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear > of a time getting that to work. > > So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other > recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing > on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at > least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on > dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server > hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Garry > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS Garry Turkington ` Tyler Littlefield @ ` Kelly Prescott ` Garry Turkington 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Kelly Prescott @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile a kernel to work. then I exclude kernel* from updates. I have also used gentoo and debian as well. debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing. still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5. Just my $0.02 =-- Kelly Prescott On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington <garrys.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's > not hit my inbox or the archives. > > I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using > CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained > reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. > > In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment > die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among > other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some > rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which > will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. > Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of > the server variants out there. > > With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably > trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use > software speech -- and especially with my preference for some > commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up > working. > > This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have > any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the > dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it > looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. > Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear > of a time getting that to work. > > So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other > recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing > on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at > least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on > dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server > hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Garry > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS ` Kelly Prescott @ ` Garry Turkington ` Gregory Nowak ` John G. Heim 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Garry Turkington @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hi Kelly/Tyler, Thanks for your responses. I do know that espeakup obviates the need for speech-dispatcher and speechd-up but since I want to try some commercial voices I'll have to use those as well. As Kelly suggested getting a vanilla Debian 5 install speech enabled using the aforementioned Speakup/Espeak/Espeakup was almost embarrassingly easy. I've also found that the responsiveness I'm getting in the install within a VM is vastly improved on anything I ever saw before in a virtualized environment. I know VMware explicitly did work on Linux sound in Workstation 7 but I'm sure congrats are owed to the Speakup folk too. Nice one! Now that I've got a snapshot of this setup I'm now going to play with speech-dispatcher and speechd-up. I see that there's a pre-rolled speech-dispatcher package in the Debian repo but not speechd-up. I seem to recall mention of it though, is it in an additional repository somewhere? I've not used Debian in anger for... err... 12 years ack so am somewhat out of touch on the repositories. Cheers, Garry On 11/26/09, Kelly Prescott <prescott@deltav.org> wrote: > Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile > a kernel to work. > then I exclude kernel* from updates. > I have also used gentoo and debian as well. > debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing. > still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5. > Just my $0.02 > > =-- Kelly Prescott > > > On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington <garrys.lists@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's >> not hit my inbox or the archives. >> >> I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using >> CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained >> reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. >> >> In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment >> die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among >> other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some >> rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which >> will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. >> Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of >> the server variants out there. >> >> With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably >> trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use >> software speech -- and especially with my preference for some >> commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up >> working. >> >> This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have >> any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the >> dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it >> looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. >> Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear >> of a time getting that to work. >> >> So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other >> recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing >> on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at >> least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on >> dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server >> hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> Garry >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS ` Garry Turkington @ ` Gregory Nowak ` John G. Heim 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:59:43PM +0000, Garry Turkington wrote: > I see that there's a pre-rolled > speech-dispatcher package in the Debian repo but not speechd-up. I > seem to recall mention of it though, is it in an additional repository > somewhere? I don't use speech-dispatcher/speechd-up myself anymore, so don't know how helpful these will be, but here they are: http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2007-July/044059.html http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2007-July/044069.html Hth. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksPAIkACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyB4jQCdERPTqlaEuIY7XIGdbjJ0d4jc FvQAn2O2P579zjM+rfGQdeuWHJFtXF0j =+uKP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS ` Garry Turkington ` Gregory Nowak @ ` John G. Heim ` Michael Whapples 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: John G. Heim @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. There were 2 sources for speechd-up debian packages, ubuntu and myself. I created a speechd-up debian package that mostly worked. But it never became an official debian package and I don't think speechd-up is even being developed any more. You can try my packages but even I don't use them any more. I always use espeakup which does not require speech-dispatcher or speechd-up. If you ttry my packages, you will probably have to modify the /etc/init.d/speechd-up script. I think changes in debian from etch to lenny broke that script. If you want to try my debian package you can point a browser here: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-i386/speechd-up_0.5_i386.deb Or for amd64: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-amd64/speechd-up_0.5_amd64.deb jheim@erdos:~/public/html$ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Turkington" <garrys.lists@gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:59 PM Subject: Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS > Hi Kelly/Tyler, > > Thanks for your responses. > > I do know that espeakup obviates the need for speech-dispatcher and > speechd-up but since I want to try some commercial voices I'll have to > use those as well. > > As Kelly suggested getting a vanilla Debian 5 install speech enabled > using the aforementioned Speakup/Espeak/Espeakup was almost > embarrassingly easy. I've also found that the responsiveness I'm > getting in the install within a VM is vastly improved on anything I > ever saw before in a virtualized environment. I know VMware > explicitly did work on Linux sound in Workstation 7 but I'm sure > congrats are owed to the Speakup folk too. Nice one! > > Now that I've got a snapshot of this setup I'm now going to play with > speech-dispatcher and speechd-up. I see that there's a pre-rolled > speech-dispatcher package in the Debian repo but not speechd-up. I > seem to recall mention of it though, is it in an additional repository > somewhere? I've not used Debian in anger for... err... 12 years ack > so am somewhat out of touch on the repositories. > > Cheers, > Garry > > On 11/26/09, Kelly Prescott <prescott@deltav.org> wrote: >> Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile >> a kernel to work. >> then I exclude kernel* from updates. >> I have also used gentoo and debian as well. >> debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing. >> still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5. >> Just my $0.02 >> >> =-- Kelly Prescott >> >> >> On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington <garrys.lists@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's >>> not hit my inbox or the archives. >>> >>> I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using >>> CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained >>> reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. >>> >>> In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment >>> die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among >>> other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some >>> rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which >>> will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. >>> Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of >>> the server variants out there. >>> >>> With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably >>> trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use >>> software speech -- and especially with my preference for some >>> commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up >>> working. >>> >>> This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have >>> any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the >>> dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it >>> looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. >>> Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear >>> of a time getting that to work. >>> >>> So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other >>> recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing >>> on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at >>> least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on >>> dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server >>> hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Garry >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS ` John G. Heim @ ` Michael Whapples ` Garry Turkington 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Michael Whapples @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. I am quite sure there is also a debian package for speechd-up in GRML. However like others I have to say I haven't used speechd-up for a very long time. Whenever I felt the need for using IBMTTS I just used the speakup connector (I think it now may be part of voxin but it certainly was on the ttsynth page. However I have found myself using IBMTTS less and less and just going with espeak and espeakup, it really isn't bad and saves all the stuff you have to do in just trying to keep IBMTTS working. Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, John G. Heim wrote: > There were 2 sources for speechd-up debian packages, ubuntu and myself. > > I created a speechd-up debian package that mostly worked. But it > never became an official debian package and I don't think speechd-up > is even being developed any more. You can try my packages but even I > don't use them any more. I always use espeakup which does not require > speech-dispatcher or speechd-up. If you ttry my packages, you will > probably have to modify the /etc/init.d/speechd-up script. I think > changes in debian from etch to lenny broke that script. > > If you want to try my debian package you can point a browser here: > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-i386/speechd-up_0.5_i386.deb > > > Or for amd64: > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-amd64/speechd-up_0.5_amd64.deb > > jheim@erdos:~/public/html$ > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Turkington" > <garrys.lists@gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:59 PM > Subject: Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS > > > >> Hi Kelly/Tyler, >> >> Thanks for your responses. >> >> I do know that espeakup obviates the need for speech-dispatcher and >> speechd-up but since I want to try some commercial voices I'll have to >> use those as well. >> >> As Kelly suggested getting a vanilla Debian 5 install speech enabled >> using the aforementioned Speakup/Espeak/Espeakup was almost >> embarrassingly easy. I've also found that the responsiveness I'm >> getting in the install within a VM is vastly improved on anything I >> ever saw before in a virtualized environment. I know VMware >> explicitly did work on Linux sound in Workstation 7 but I'm sure >> congrats are owed to the Speakup folk too. Nice one! >> >> Now that I've got a snapshot of this setup I'm now going to play with >> speech-dispatcher and speechd-up. I see that there's a pre-rolled >> speech-dispatcher package in the Debian repo but not speechd-up. I >> seem to recall mention of it though, is it in an additional repository >> somewhere? I've not used Debian in anger for... err... 12 years ack >> so am somewhat out of touch on the repositories. >> >> Cheers, >> Garry >> >> On 11/26/09, Kelly Prescott <prescott@deltav.org> wrote: >>> Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile >>> a kernel to work. >>> then I exclude kernel* from updates. >>> I have also used gentoo and debian as well. >>> debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing. >>> still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5. >>> Just my $0.02 >>> >>> =-- Kelly Prescott >>> >>> >>> On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington <garrys.lists@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's >>>> not hit my inbox or the archives. >>>> >>>> I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using >>>> CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained >>>> reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. >>>> >>>> In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment >>>> die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among >>>> other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some >>>> rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which >>>> will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. >>>> Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of >>>> the server variants out there. >>>> >>>> With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably >>>> trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use >>>> software speech -- and especially with my preference for some >>>> commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up >>>> working. >>>> >>>> This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have >>>> any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the >>>> dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it >>>> looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. >>>> Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear >>>> of a time getting that to work. >>>> >>>> So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other >>>> recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing >>>> on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at >>>> least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on >>>> dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server >>>> hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Garry >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS ` Michael Whapples @ ` Garry Turkington 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Garry Turkington @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hi all, Thanks again for the responses here. I did just compile speechd-up from the 'latest' sources and that was fine. Then things got complicated when I realised my binary-only voices were compiled for OSS and after playing with wrappers and modifying speech dispatcher modules I had one of those 'this is too difficult to be practical' moments. I've got the working Lenny system using Espeak and espeakup and enough people are saying they get used to the voice that I'll give it a try. Cheers, Garry On 11/28/09, Michael Whapples <mwhapples@aim.com> wrote: > I am quite sure there is also a debian package for speechd-up in GRML. > However like others I have to say I haven't used speechd-up for a very > long time. Whenever I felt the need for using IBMTTS I just used the > speakup connector (I think it now may be part of voxin but it certainly > was on the ttsynth page. > > However I have found myself using IBMTTS less and less and just going > with espeak and espeakup, it really isn't bad and saves all the stuff > you have to do in just trying to keep IBMTTS working. > > Michael Whapples > On -10/01/37 20:59, John G. Heim wrote: >> There were 2 sources for speechd-up debian packages, ubuntu and myself. >> >> I created a speechd-up debian package that mostly worked. But it >> never became an official debian package and I don't think speechd-up >> is even being developed any more. You can try my packages but even I >> don't use them any more. I always use espeakup which does not require >> speech-dispatcher or speechd-up. If you ttry my packages, you will >> probably have to modify the /etc/init.d/speechd-up script. I think >> changes in debian from etch to lenny broke that script. >> >> If you want to try my debian package you can point a browser here: >> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-i386/speechd-up_0.5_i386.deb >> >> >> >> Or for amd64: >> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-amd64/speechd-up_0.5_amd64.deb >> >> >> jheim@erdos:~/public/html$ >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Turkington" >> <garrys.lists@gmail.com> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:59 PM >> Subject: Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS >> >> >> >>> Hi Kelly/Tyler, >>> >>> Thanks for your responses. >>> >>> I do know that espeakup obviates the need for speech-dispatcher and >>> speechd-up but since I want to try some commercial voices I'll have to >>> use those as well. >>> >>> As Kelly suggested getting a vanilla Debian 5 install speech enabled >>> using the aforementioned Speakup/Espeak/Espeakup was almost >>> embarrassingly easy. I've also found that the responsiveness I'm >>> getting in the install within a VM is vastly improved on anything I >>> ever saw before in a virtualized environment. I know VMware >>> explicitly did work on Linux sound in Workstation 7 but I'm sure >>> congrats are owed to the Speakup folk too. Nice one! >>> >>> Now that I've got a snapshot of this setup I'm now going to play with >>> speech-dispatcher and speechd-up. I see that there's a pre-rolled >>> speech-dispatcher package in the Debian repo but not speechd-up. I >>> seem to recall mention of it though, is it in an additional repository >>> somewhere? I've not used Debian in anger for... err... 12 years ack >>> so am somewhat out of touch on the repositories. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Garry >>> >>> On 11/26/09, Kelly Prescott <prescott@deltav.org> wrote: >>>> Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile >>>> a kernel to work. >>>> then I exclude kernel* from updates. >>>> I have also used gentoo and debian as well. >>>> debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing. >>>> still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5. >>>> Just my $0.02 >>>> >>>> =-- Kelly Prescott >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington <garrys.lists@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's >>>>> not hit my inbox or the archives. >>>>> >>>>> I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using >>>>> CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained >>>>> reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. >>>>> >>>>> In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment >>>>> die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among >>>>> other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some >>>>> rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which >>>>> will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. >>>>> Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of >>>>> the server variants out there. >>>>> >>>>> With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably >>>>> trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use >>>>> software speech -- and especially with my preference for some >>>>> commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up >>>>> working. >>>>> >>>>> This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have >>>>> any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the >>>>> dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it >>>>> looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. >>>>> Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear >>>>> of a time getting that to work. >>>>> >>>>> So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other >>>>> recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing >>>>> on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at >>>>> least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on >>>>> dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server >>>>> hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Garry >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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