From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from haydn.is.nottingham.ac.uk ([128.243.40.92]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1D9RJF-0000g5-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:18:53 -0500 Received: from zcd-149-109.sns.nottingham.ac.uk ([10.3.149.109] helo=slax) by haydn.is.nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 1D9RIv-0006V8-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:18:33 +0000 References: <033201c5258d$26e58680$0601a8c0@kasil> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: mikster4@msn.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:18:35 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact staff-it-helpline@nottingham.ac.uk for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: mikster4@msn.com Subject: Re: festival X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:18:53 -0000 I don't see any reason festival would do this. I think in the past I have compiled festival on slackware and not had any problem with hardware synths. If you are unsure then you can use the RPM's with the rpm2tgz tool, I know this works. Mike Kyrath. (AKA Rob) writes: > In the course of reading various documentation, I came across a warning that compiling festival, or perhaps some other program that requires festival, can potentially kill a hardware synth. > > Is this a true risk? > I'm looking to compile festival on a slackware 10.1 system with a doubletalk synth. > > -- Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >