How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)

[Thomas D. Ward]

In all honesty festival is the better choice here. Viavoice is rapidly
getting out dated, and it has problems with certain sound cards which makes
speech real choppy.
I suggest using festival or freetts with gnopernicus which I have tested
with the latest build of gnopernicus on a Red Hat 9 system.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:03 AM
Subject: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)


> I have been unable to get viavoice to do anything -- I installed
> (using alien) viavoice_tts_rtk_5.tar and viavoice_tts_sdk_5.tar, but
> when I went into the programs under the samples directory, the
> cmdlinespeak compiled, but complained loudly that it couldn't create
> an esi handle and seemed to be looking for esi.ini (on Linux?).
> Also, the filespeak program wouldn't even compile -- it was
> complaining about some c++ errors.
>
> Has anyone figured out how to get this to work -- I am interested in
> it for possibly emacspeak and also for gnopernicus access.
>
> --
>          John Covici
>          covici at ccs.covici.com
>
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