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 19C162-000581-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 13:46:50 -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 h43HknGj020837 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 13:46:49 -0400 Received: from smtp.wpi.edu(130.215.36.186) by mcafee.wpi.edu via csmap id 20543; Sat, 03 May 2003 13:49:41 -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 h43HkmHo032309; Sat, 3 May 2003 13:46:48 -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 h43HkmNi007840; Sat, 3 May 2003 13:46:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ender3rd@localhost) by wpi.WPI.EDU (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h43HklFT009885; Sat, 3 May 2003 13:46:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wpi.WPI.EDU: ender3rd owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 13:46:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Owen Patrick Smith 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: I hope so, we were trying to help. I hope you don't mind us quoting you in our IQP report. Owen On Sat, 3 May 2003, Charles Crawford wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >