trouble with viavoice and speech-dispatcher

trouble with viavoice and speech-dispatcher

[Joshua Lambert]

I've installed viavoice sdk, correctly installed and configured 
speech-dispatcher, and get only silence when running the speech tests. 
According to the output of the tests, it's supposed to be speaking, but 
nothing through the sound card.  I've tried using both alsa and oss 
configurations.  Similar problem with gnome-speech-0.3.10.  It compiles 
okay, and test-speech allows me to select the viavoice driver, but then 
complains it can't initialize the server.  Any ideas?
Cheers,
Josh

Re: trouble with viavoice and speech-dispatcher

[Willem van der Walt]

Just checking, for viavoice to work you need the commercial viavoice 
engine and not only the open-sourced sdk.
I suppose you have the engine installed as well.
If not, you are getting exactly what is expected, a running non-speaking 
setup.
Regards, Willem


On Fri, 26 May 2006, Joshua Lambert wrote:

> I've installed viavoice sdk, correctly installed and configured
> speech-dispatcher, and get only silence when running the speech tests.
> According to the output of the tests, it's supposed to be speaking, but
> nothing through the sound card.  I've tried using both alsa and oss
> configurations.  Similar problem with gnome-speech-0.3.10.  It compiles
> okay, and test-speech allows me to select the viavoice driver, but then
> complains it can't initialize the server.  Any ideas?
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
>
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> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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Re: trouble with viavoice and speech-dispatcher

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Friday 26 May 2006 08:50, Joshua Lambert wrote:
> I've installed viavoice sdk, correctly installed and configured
> speech-dispatcher, and get only silence when running the speech tests.

See Willem's reply.

BTW, the Linux commercial product is now called IBM TTS instead of ViaVoice.  
Contact Capital Accessibility if you want to purchase a copy.  Their website 
purchase doesn't work, so you'll need to contact them directly.

http://ttsynth.com/

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