From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 208-59-175-194.c3-0.slvr-ubr2.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com ([208.59.175.194] helo=localhost.localdomain) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19C12C-0004zA-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 13:42:52 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h43HaSjA032555 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 13:36:28 -0400 Received: from localhost (ccrawford@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h43HaS4P032551 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 13:36:28 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ccrawford owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 13:36:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Crawford X-X-Sender: ccrawford@localhost.localdomain To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: speakup and festival In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Charlie Crawford