software synths

[Rock Bazzle]

Hi David.
Thanks for the info. I downloaded the tools you mentioned and will attempt 
to install them tomorrow.
I'm not partial to festival so will download Flite as soon as I can find it 
and give that a try.
Once again, thanks much.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: software synths


> Hi:
> Actually the software speech for speakup does not come with Fedora.  You 
> will have to configure and install a few things
> before you have it running.  What comes with Fedora is Festival which is 
> just a speech synthesizer.  Festival is part of
> what you need, but it is not all of it.  I am writing a document 
> explaining how to do this, but it is taking forever.
> I am putting below a message I posted to someone else about this, so you 
> can take a look at it.  If you have questions, you
> can drop me a line directly.
>
> Here is the message:
>
> Hi there:
> I think you should use "flite", because it is written in C and it is 
> faster and more responsive than "festival".  However,
> if you like "festival" better, there is nothing wrong with that...
>
> To test the synths do:
>
> 1. $ flite -f /path/to/file
> 2. $ festival --tts /path/to/file
>
> Where /path/to/file is the path to some text file that you want 
> flite/festival to speek.
>
> To get speakup working with software speech you will need some other 
> applications.  They are:
> 1. speech-dispatcher
> 2. speechd_up
>
> I think you can get speech-dispatcher from your apt-get repos.  Speechd_up 
> you will have to download from its website.  I
> don't remember what that is.  Someone else can tell you that or google 
> it...
> Remember to look at the speech-dispatcher configuration if things are not 
> working...
>
> To test speech-dispatcher do:
> $ speech-dispatcher
> $ spd-say "some text"
>
> Where "some text" is just some text you want it to speek.
>
> Now, you have to create the device /dev/softsynth with numbers 10/26.  Use 
> the command:
> $ mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26
>
> After you have done all of this, run speech-dispatcher:
> $ speech-dispatcher
> Load the "sftsyn" speakup module into memory:
> $ modprobe speakup_sftsyn
> and run speechd_up:
> $ speechd_up
>
> Note: you must remove the current speakup_xxxx module from the kernel 
> before loading the speakup_sftsyn module.  Do
> something like:
> $ rmmod speakup_xxxx
> Trying to load both modules at the same time, could crash your box.
>
> You should have a software speech enabled system at this point.  I am 
> writing a howto on how to do this, but it has taken
> me rediculously long to finish it!  I guess life/baby/school/etc has 
> gotten in the way.
>
> David B.
>
>
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