gnome problems under slackware

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Yes, you need to install festival.  Festival isn't part of Gnome.

         Kenny

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:08:59AM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > One more thing I forgot to mention is that I don't have festival or
> > anything like that installed, since I assumed that was part of the
> > gnome-speech package.
> > 
> > When I run test-speech, I get:
> > 
> > 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2
> >  
> > 
> > When I hit 1, I get :
> > Atempting to activate
> > OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.2.
> > 
> > Then, I just get my standard bash prompt. I assume that means that
> > things worked. If this isn't correct, and I need to install festival,
> > then is there a slackware package somewhere for it, or am I going to
> > need to build it from source?
> 
> I can't speak for 9.1 but there certainly wasn't a Festival package 
> available for Slack 9.0.  You cou,d always look in the extras directory on 
> the ftp site.
> 
> In the even that you do have to build from sources, it's not a big deal, 
> just takes a while.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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