From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ohsmtp03.ogw.rr.com ([65.24.7.38]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19R3CA-00086J-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:03:18 -0400 Received: from cpe-024-033-003-115.midsouth.rr.com (cpe-024-033-003-115.midsouth.rr.com [24.33.3.115]) by ohsmtp03.ogw.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h5E53D6F025367 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:03:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: ssh for linux 7 In-Reply-To: <000f01c331a9$15a9f600$09849641@tward1978> Message-ID: References: <20030612172212.GA5068@romuald.net.eu.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20030613062322.0233b008@mail.shawcable.com> <000f01c331a9$15a9f600$09849641@tward1978> 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: What I found in my tests is that Festival would compile just fine provided you didn't enable shared libraries. The documentation states that shared libraries should work just fine in Linux, but it bombed out in Slackware 9.0 with the default of static libraries, it took awhile to build, but was able to run just fine. Personally, I find the Festival voices very flat and difficult to listen to for long periods. Festival was also somewhat flaky in Gnopernicus for me due to its not supporting indexing. I haven't messed with Flite since it isn't yet supported by Gnopernicus. Freetts uses the same speech as Festival, but since it's Java-based, you really need a fast computer to make it practical.