current status of software speech with speakup

[Hugh Esco]

Jared:

I've been struggling with this one, as well, for some time now.  The best 
source I've found yet is:
         http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux
Thanks to Steve Holmes for pointing this out.

I understand that yasr or festival (both software synthesizers) will work 
with speakup.  The site above describes a process for installing the 
middleware to run festival.  It links to another site in Italian that is no 
help to my linguistically challenged head.  I have seen no HOW-TO on making 
yasr work.

I know that yasr and festival are both available as packages for 
Debian.  Presumably you could find .rpm's for Redhat as well, if that is 
your preference.  Apparently the pre-built Redhat and Debian 
Speakup-enabled kernels do not support software synthesis and to run 
Speakup without a hardware synth it is necessary to build a patched kernel 
from source.

That is what I know so far.

If you were to read the "Any expereince w/ Debian Woody Speakup Packages?" 
thread, you can see the blow-by-blow of my efforts to install the 
middleware described on the page cited above.  I'm very close, I 
think.  But still no jabbering at boot-up or in a shell.

-- Hugh Esco

At 10:43 AM 7/20/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a laptop that I want to install redhat Linux, and speakup on. I don't
>have a hardware synth, or serial ports, so buying a hardware synth is not an
>option. What is the current status of software speech under Linux, I've
>scene a web page but it hasn't been updated for a while. Also I know there
>are two different versions of software speech, and don't know which one to
>chose? Appreciate any info.