Software Speech Synth with Speakup -- Help, please.

[Hugh Esco]

Greetings:

I put these questions a few days ago and the first one in a number of ways 
over a week ago but still have seen no answers that instill in me the 
confidence to move forward.  Any and all help is appreciated.

(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.