current status of software speech with speakup

[Hugh Esco]

Mr. Ward, anyone:

Thanks for this primer, below.

(1)     As I am so close on having Speakup / Festival / Middleware working 
on this machine I'm working on, any ideas what it will take to finish that 
install successfully?  (My progress to date is documented in the thread: 
"Any experience w/ Debian Woody Speakup Packages?")

(2)     If I were to install yasr, would it work with Speakup?  Would it 
announce kernel panics during boot-up?

(3)     I already have eflite 0.3.5-2 working with emacspeak on this box, 
installed from the .deb packages.  Do I still need to re-install it from 
source?  Might this break my emacspeak installation?  Can you tell me more 
about compiling eflite with the appropriate voices?  Where would I find 
those voices?

-- Hugh

At 08:09 AM 7/21/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, Hugh.
>To get started using yasr with software speech all you need do is go to:
>http://yasr.sourceforge.net
>Download the yasr 0.6.4 source, and then grab flite and eflite source which
>there are links to.
>   You would build flite, and then compile eflite using the 16k voices not
>the 8k voices, and then set the synth port in yasr.conf, and you have
>speech.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Hugh Esco <hesco at greens.org>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 6:55 PM
>Subject: Re: current status of software speech with speakup
>
>
> > Please give me more information about how I might install yasr and speakup
> > on a Debian system to work without a hardware synthesizer.  Thanks.
> >
> > -- Hugh
> >
> > At 01:13 PM 7/20/03 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Hi, Jared.
> > >If you are looking for a software speech solution your best bet is to
>pass
> > >up speakup, and use a screen reader called yasr with the flite software
> > >speech system.
> > >A friend of mine is working on rpms for RH 9 for yasr, eflite, and flite,
> > >and hopefully in a few days we will have a solution which you can just
> > >install the three rpms and have speech up and running.
> > >I use yasr on my laptop rather than speakup for the reason it has
>software
> > >speech and it is a good alternative to speakup when you need software
> > >speech.
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Jared <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com>
> > >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > >Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:43 AM
> > >Subject: current status of software speech with speakup
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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