From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.mhcable.com ([24.105.198.42]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIcNq-00060U-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:53:02 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.mhcable.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11862E7230 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.mhcable.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.16) id 25081-187F754D; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:48:52 -0400 Received: from champion.sent.com (209-23-49-149.cm.mhcable.com [209.23.49.149]) by smtp.mhcable.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0921E720A for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:48:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from champion.sent.com (chuckh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by champion.sent.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3RNqxPs006380 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:52:59 -0400 Received: from localhost (chuckh@localhost) by champion.sent.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) with ESMTP id i3RNqvWt006377 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:52:59 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: champion.sent.com: chuckh owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:52:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: Speakup Distribution List Message-ID: X-OpenPGP-Fingerprint: 0C589180D4496F1544BAB4308355D1BC33DC7DB46 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.25.0.2; VDF: 6.25.0.32; host: smtp.mhcable.com) Cc: Subject: today flite and dectalk, tomorrow the world X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:53:02 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am elated. I have had a chronic failure to be able to compile festival and speech-tools on this Slackware 9.1 system for a long time, but today decided, after all the talk here, to try the dectalk RT with speechd-up and speech-dispatcher. That last requires flite, and my apprechensions about compiling it were evidently groundless. It just finished compiling in about ten minutes, and it works! It sounds shitty, but it works. I kept an eye on memory usage while it was compiling, and during a portion of the compile it was using all but about 32K of my 256M of ram, plus about 90% of my 256M swap space. I gather it was converting voice files from Festival from that unique format into standard C code, a very ambitious compile task. But it worked, and I now have two speech engines functional. As I said, tomorrow the world. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (53% of Full) My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQI7yWTVdG8M9x9tGAQIPvgQAkQixzLjGFnqpw6YVMtsqlOjejkzK2n1Z xuy2G6zXWitRU4i4jweWUZhcKysVky3RK3T1Z+Aa3cI91gyMtls+sT2GdlTcfQ/R jHo5VjdgNuIciO+S4iS+TAGoeCNca5jzH1q0GEbaqF46VLiKOe1VVwfhBy+XOV5o GqfcP06UFgM= =ORFk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----