Software Speech Synth with Speakup -- Help, please.

[Owen Patrick Smith]

Unfortunately I haven't been following this list very closely lately and I
can't find the thread in the archives so if you could give me a summarry
of your status with the middleware program I'll try to help.

Owen Smith
ender3rd at wpi.edu

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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