speakup and festival

[Owen Patrick Smith]

I hope so, we were trying to help.  I hope you don't mind us quoting you
in our IQP report.

Owen

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Charles Crawford wrote:

> 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
>
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