getting Gnopernicus to speak

[cris]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: getting Gnopernicus to speak


> You need to run:
>
> test-speech
>
> first. That will allow you to test any Gnopernicus capable speech server
> available under /usr/share slash whatever it is to the Gnome-Speech
> drivers. I'm sorry, I don't remember the precise path.
>
> gnome-speech is provided in rpm.
>
> test-speech is in /usr/bin so is pathed.
>
>
> showell at lrxms.net writes:
> > From: showell at lrxms.net
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am interested in trying this out. I am using Fedora 1.0 and everything
> > appears to be installed. The question I have and haven't been able to
> > determine from the docs is this. First in the GNopernicus documentation
> > I found on the web it refers to gnome-speech, but I haven't located this
> > and it apparently is a program. I'll have to go back over the docs to
> > refresh my memory of its purpose, but I guess until I find it that won't
> > matter much.<grin> Can someone tell me if this thing exists and where I
> > might locate it? I might be digging in the wrong place or searching for
> > it incorrectly, but maybe its something else.
> > Ok the other question is do I need to launch festival in server mode
> > prior to running startx or does it get launched as a part of the
> > Gnopernicus startup process. I haven't found anything that says one way
> > or the other, but then I'm not surprised as perhaps its assumed the
> > speech server/whatever is already running. This again could be a
> > missconception on my part.
> > Oh lastly, I reconfigured the box to start in runlevel 3 instead of 5 so
> > I can just run startx. I did run this lastnight my wife mentioned the
> > screen was blank. It was not blank when the runlevel was set to 5 and I
> > ran startx. Any ideas?
> >
> > tia
> > Scott
> >
> >
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