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

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  I'm also getting nothing using Gnopernicus and festival.  I have
accessibility turned on.
What does "farely well" mean?  For example, does your Gnopernicus and
festival speak as well as the demo on the last Main Menu?  My setup
doesn't even come close to providing the info that that demo does.

If your setup talks as well as the Main Menu demo, would you mind
sending me your ~/.gconf/apps/gnopernicus directory?

          Kenny

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> Hi, gnopernicus works farely well with gedit, mozilla, and various other
> gnome applications assuming it is properly configured.
> For example: have you turned gnomes accessibility framework on? Allot of
> people forget to set this to true, and gnopernicus works porely.
> >From your bash prompt type:
> gconftool-2 -s -t /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true
> Try that and see if that is why gnopernicus is working porely.
> My usage of gnopernicus has been only done on RH 8 and soon a 9.0 box of my
> own and I'm not sure about how well it operates on Debian.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas Stivers <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:53 PM
> Subject: Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)
> 
> 
> > On 05/09/03 11:31 AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I have been working with gnopernicus with festival on a debian system and
> have had
> > next to no luck getting it to do anything useful. I can get the thing to
> > talk, but the documentation (if you can call it that) leaves much to be
> > desired. Perhapse we should pool our resources and hire them a bilingual
> > person for documentation, but anyhow, what tasks have you been able to
> > perform with gnopernicus, and what resource have you been using to
> > figure it out? Thank you for any help you can provide. I apologise for
> > sounding off about things, but I have been seeing vaporware for
> > gnopernicus and the *wonderful* world of xwindows since last summer and
> > I have yet to really access anything with it.
> >
> > --
> > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
> > carefully than others.
> > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD
> >
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