Slackware and IBM TTS

[Michael Whapples]

I haven't tried using ibmtts on slackware but would be interested to
know how you get on. One tool you may want to look at is rpm2tgz which
produces a tgz package from rpm packages. It may or may not work as
different distributions do things in different ways and so packages may
depend on things not available in distros they weren't designed for. I
don't know about if there is a deb2tgz tool.

Michael Whapples
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 19:17 -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've just managed to get Speech-dispatcher, Speechd-up, and Udev
> working together in order to use Espeak with Speakup.  It was
> surprisingly easy.
> I bought TTSynth and Voxen a while ago, but they're in .deb and .rpm
> respectively.  
> While I've nothing against Espeak, I was wondering if there was a way to
> get the Viavoice working on my system.  
> I know there's a compatability library I need, but I don't think that's
> a problem with Slackware: I'm pretty sure I have it.
> Has any Slackware user managed to get either of the packagings of
> Viavoice working?  If so, how?
> Any advice appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Zack.
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