software synths

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
I am not sure what you mean by "not partial of festival", but if what you mean is that you don't like its voice, then you 
got a problem, because flite is not any better.  However, flite is faster/more-responsive than festival, so if your problem 
is speed, flite will help.  You can get a flite rpm that works in FC3 from the altlinux distribution.  I don't remember the 
web address, but if you search the speakup archives, you will find it.

The names of the files you need are:
	flite-1.2-alt3.i586.rpm
	flite-devel-1.2-alt3.i586.rpm

HTH!

David B.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:53PM -0500, Rock Bazzle wrote:
> 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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