Owen: Re: Software Speech Synth with Speakup -- Help, please.

[Hugh Esco]

Please tell me what you did to get middleware and Festival working.  Are 
you working in Debian, by any chance?  I could not get the middleware 
executable to execute.  I'm clueless as to how it ought to interact with 
Festival and the Speakup kernel.  ANd would also appreciate some help on 
how to build it into the start-up scripts in /etc/init.d/.

-- Hugh

At 05:27 PM 7/28/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Hugh and others,
>Well, I stalled everything according to the documentation, rebooted,
>started the festival server and middleware, and actually got speech.
>
>The major concern I have is that festival is way behind anything I am try
>to do.  This may be partially due to the slowness of festival.  The second
>problem I'm having is that festival doesn't speak when I use the keypad.
>This may be something I'm not doing although I checked the option to use
>speakup as the default keymap.
>
>The next step may be to look at using flite instead of festival because it
>should improve the response time.
>
>This is a great start and the gang at WPI is to be congratulated for moving
>speakup into the software synth age.  I'm wondering whether middleware
>could be rewritten to use eflite or some of the other emacspeak servers
>such as viavoice and software dectalk.
>
>Chris
>
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