speakup and emacspeak

[Lorenzo Prince]

Too bad.  I thought viavoice sounded better than flite.   Unless of course
someone can tell me of a better voice to compile into it and where I can
get it.

Lorenzo

E Pluribus Unix

Thomas D. Ward staggered into view and mumbled:

> Well, Viavoice is a bit of a catch 22. IBM is no longer maintaining
> viavoice, and  as I understand it people are not really allowed to
> redistribute it any more. So end result is it has dried up on the net.
> In all honesty since Outloud is not being maintained any more it's rapidly
> get out of date, and harder and harder to run on newer Linux systems. It is
> problably better to build something like flite with 16k voices, and stick
> with that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 6:58 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup and emacspeak
>
>
> > Where can I get Viavoice now?  IBM doesn't have it, and they don't even
> > seem to be selling it anywhere.  I really wanted to try this synth.  Can
> > anyone help me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > E Pluribus Unix
> >
> > Thomas D. Ward staggered into view and mumbled:
> >
> > > Actually, I use viavoice, with emacspeak. I was just telling the person
> on
> > > list if he wants to use his Express uner emacspeak he willhave to
> completely
> > > stop and restart Linux to use the express under emacspeak..
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Christopher Moore <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net>
> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:24 PM
> > > Subject: Re: speakup and emacspeak
> > >
> > >
> > > > Thomas,
> > > > Try running emacspeak with eflite. Then you can emacs in one console
> and
> > > > speakup in another at the same time.  Emacspeak also supports fonix, a
> > > > software dectalk express (available for $50).
> > > > End result is that speakup never vanishes to the point of being able
> to
> > > use
> > > > the com port for something else.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > > --
> > > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (61% of Full)
> > > >
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