From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1.wpi.edu ([130.215.36.102]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BytL-0002nx-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:25:35 -0400 Received: from mcafee.wpi.edu (mcafee.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.86]) by mail1.WPI.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h43FPYGj018611 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 11:25:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.wpi.edu(130.215.36.186) by mcafee.wpi.edu via csmap id 4287; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:28:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wpi.WPI.EDU (root@wpi.WPI.EDU [130.215.24.6]) by smtp.WPI.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h43FPXHo020226 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 11:25:33 -0400 Received: from wpi.WPI.EDU (ender3rd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wpi.WPI.EDU (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h43FPWNi000086 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 11:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ender3rd@localhost) by wpi.WPI.EDU (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h43FPWiR003833 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 11:25:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wpi.WPI.EDU: ender3rd owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 11:25:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Owen Patrick Smith To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: speakup and festival In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030503010313.026e2160@petra-k.greens.org> 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: 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 >