From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford@acb.org>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: speakup and festival
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 13:36:28 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305031335040.32500-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0305031121220.3542-100000@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Owen,
You may not realize this, but your work may be a major turning
point in the evolution of Linux for blind people. Thank you!
On Sat, 3 May
2003, Owen Patrick Smith wrote:
> Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival. I helped one of the two
> projects that can do so. See the group website at
> http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info. The code is currently working
> but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the
> summer. The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with
> some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the
> boot process. Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no
> longer strictly required for day-to-day usage.
>
> HtH
>
> Owen Smith
> ender3rd@wpi.edu
>
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:
>
> > Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with
> > a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte? I built a Debian machine
> > with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine. I'd love to make it
> > possible for him to hear the computer from startup. But I had understood
> > that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that
> > would be possible. Was I mistaken?
> >
> > -- Hugh Esco
> >
>
>
>
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-- Charlie Crawford
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