software speech on Slackware, Debian, and others?

Tue Nov 16 06:41:20 EST 2004

I got it at:
http://www.themuso.com/const.patch.bz2
The message I got it from was sent to this list on 7 August.
HTH
Regards, Willem

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Sean McMahon wrote:

> You may want to reference where you obtained the patch as well?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <willem at top.health.gov.za>
> To: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
> Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:13 AM
> Subject: Re: software speech on Slackware, Debian, and others?
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Bruzos wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone:
>>> This message is kind of long, so you might not want to include the entire
>>> thing when you respond!
>>> I have some questions about software speech and distributions other than
>>> Fedora.  I started writing some stuff down and retesting some of the
>>> things I did before (to make sure they work again) and I plan to have a
>>> draft of the software howto written soon.  However, I like to include
>>> whatever I can about other distributions like Debian and Slackware...
>>> Below, I will write the basic steps that I perform to get it configured on
>>> Fedora.  Can users of other distros send me their distro-specific details?
>>>
>>> 1. I use the "mkinitrd" command to put the "sftsyn" module into the kernel
>>> at boot time.  The command was:
>>> "mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.6.x.img 2.6.x --with=speakup_sftsyn
>>> --with=pcspkr"
>>>
>>>    A. Can this be applied to other distros?
>>>    B. Does "mkinitrd" act different (how) in other distros?
>>>    C. Should I use another (more portable) approach?
>>>    D. Do other distros have the PC speaker (pcspkr) compiled as a module?
>>>
>>> 2. I created a /dev/softsynth device using the "mknod" command.  The
>>> command was:
>>> "mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26".
>>>
>>>    A. Is this ok for other distros?
>>>    B. Is the syntax the same?
>>>
>>> 3. Festival was already instaled and working in Fedora.
>>>    A. Any problems getting Festival for other distros?
>>>
>>> 4. Flite was not installed in Fedora.  I had to download RPMS, because it
>>> would not compile properly...
>> I got flite compiled on fc2 by applying a patch from I think Luke
>> Yellovitch.  The patch file is called const.patch.bz2.
>> I had to compile flite as the rpm I could find at the time did not seem to
>> have the required shared libraries for speech dispatcher to compile.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 5. I downloaded speech-dispatcher, compiled it, and installed it without
>>> any problems.
>>>    A. Anyone have problems doing this?
>> Not once the shared libraries issue discribed above was solved.
>>
>>>
>>> 6.  speechd_up compiled and installed without problems also...
>>>    A. ...?
>>>
>>> 7. Just ran:
>>>    A. # speech-dispatcher
>>>    B. # speechd_up
>>> I had software speech working at this point...
>> No I did not, but I did not put sftsyn into my initrd.img as I am mainly
>> using dectlk.  That might be the reason why I first have to echo sftsyn to
>> /proc/speakup/synth_name.
>>  >
>>> I have repeated these steps on three different machines and they have all
>>> worked without a problem.
>> I have used the Fedora core 2 speakup modified fedora kernel.
>>
>> The only thing I have not been able to do is
>>> compile flite from source.  However, the flite RPMS work very well...
>> An rpm is always easyer, so I am glad you found the right one.
>> At the mmoment, I some times succeed in crashing my kernel when switching
>> back and forth between the soft and hardware synths.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanx IA!
>>>
>>> David Bruzos
>>>
>>>
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