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

[Thomas D. Ward]

IS festival speaking to you when you start gnopernicus?If it isn't try
passing a variable before starting.

export FESTIVAL=1

The gnopernicus compilation was actually for a friend on his system with
some outside help. We did get it working, but since my friend is out of town
for a few days  I won't be able to fully test it until he returns.
If I get it working as well as the main menu program I'll be happy to send
you the ~/.gconf/app/gnopernicus directory.
Hth.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt at knology.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: How to get viavoice working (was Re: where did viavoice go?)


> 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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