speakup and festival

[Charles Crawford]

Owen,

	You may not realize this, but your work may be a major turning 
point in the evolution of Linux for blind people.  Thank you!

On Sat, 3 May 
2003, Owen Patrick Smith wrote:

> Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival.  I helped one of the two
> projects that can do so.  See the group website at
> http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info.  The code is currently working
> but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the
> summer.  The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with
> some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the
> boot process.  Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no
> longer strictly required for day-to-day usage.
> 
> HtH
> 
> Owen Smith
> ender3rd at wpi.edu
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:
> 
> > Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with
> > a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte?  I built a Debian machine
> > with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine.  I'd love to make it
> > possible for him to hear the computer from startup.  But I had understood
> > that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that
> > would be possible.  Was I mistaken?
> >
> > -- Hugh Esco
> >
> 
> 
> 
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-- Charlie Crawford