festival

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

There is a bug that can trash your hardware synth on com 1, but it should
only be a problem once.  It only happens when you first set up
Gnopernicus for a new user.

Basically: when you select "enable screen reader" in the assistive
technology dialog in desktop preferences, the defaults for Gnopernicus
will be switched to ones that include a braille display connected to com
1.  Just go into the startup preferences dialog of Gnopernicus and
disable braille support to get Gnopernicus to stop messing with the com
port.  After you do this, you can switch to a text console and get the
synth back.
To get the synth back, just change the speakup default to none, power
cycle the synth, and then return the speakup default to the hardware
synth.

The bug has been reported, and it should be fixed "soon".  Like I said,
it only happens when you first set up Gnopernicus, it won't happen again
and it won't happen on a system that just runs Gnome without
Gnopernicus.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:57:12PM -0800, jim grimsby wrote:
> Hi, no 
> The problem is when you run gnome whith the screen reader for gnome both of
> them as far as I know it kills your speech device because it only
> understands that a Braille display is on the serial port.  Hth 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Kyrath. (AKA Rob)
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:21 AM
> To: Speakup
> Subject: festival
> 
> 
> In the course of reading various documentation, I came across a warning that
> compiling festival, or perhaps some other program that requires festival,
> can potentially kill a hardware synth.
> 
> Is this a true risk?
> I'm looking to compile festival on a slackware 10.1 system with a doubletalk
> synth.
> 
> -- Rob
> 
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