speakup and festival

[Charles Crawford]

Go for it!

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

> 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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-- Charlie Crawford