Synth keyword for festival?

[Luke Davis]

Have you been taking notes on everything you did to get this working?


On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> OK...now here's the latest on my laptop and getting the Festival-enabled Speakup going:
>
> For some reason, the ALSA drivers won't load. However, the OSS driver
> does. So...I have sound. Not only do I have sound, but festival reads
> a text file (so it works). I have middleware compiled. However,
> speakup doesn't....well...speak up. I do
> festival --server &
> middleware &
> And nothing talks. No errors either.
>
> Looking in /var/log/syslog; it shows (with an append of
> speakup_synth=fest or speakup_synth=festival) that fest (or festival)
> is an unknown synthesizer type. However, with no synthesizer
> specified, the kernel boots and says it detects a Speakout (which I
> don't have). Even so, it still doesn't talk. So. ... What's the synth
> keyword?
>
> Getting closer by the minute--
>