using speakup with festival or flite

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 and 9.0. What 
are the errors you're getting, maybe I can help you, as flite's a nice fast 
little synth, though unfortunately not yet running with speakup.
Also, does anyone know what the best voice to use with festival is? I've 
tried Kal-16k (which is what flite uses) and don't really care for it much. 
I've tried to link it up with the mbrola voices, but doing so produces 
quite a lag in responsiveness. A pity, as these voices are quite pleasant 
to listen to. I guess I'll have to try the british voices.
As for ViaVoice TTS, don't get your hopes up since ibm discontinued it. 
Worse, the copyright prohibits redistribution of ViaVoice, even though 
IBM's basically abandoned it. It certainly would be nice to see ViaVoice 
revived but I wouldn't hold my breath.

At 11:59 4/15/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival
>from source and then installed speakup with the mods for
>software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel).
>
>I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed
>(on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling
>Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release
>of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling
>Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the
>speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or
>ViaVoice TTS?