Off topic: emacspeak help

[Janina Sajka]

Jim:

The gnopernicus speech driver is a package, also currently available via
cvs, called gnome-speech. It can use at least the Sun Java TTS,
Festival, and/or ViaVoice. The last one is interesting, suggesting that
maybe ViaVoice will be back.


jwantz at hpcc.noaa.gov writes:
> 
> Hi Janina,
> Thanks for this information.  Now, will Gnopernicus use Festival, or 
> Hi Janina,
> Thanks for this information.  Now, will Gnopernicus use Festival, or 
> Flite?
> 
>      Jim Wantz WB0TFK
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Emacspeak doesn't work with Festival. And, even if it did, you'd need to specify the appropriate intermediary "speech server" for emacspeak.
> > 
> > What it does work with is called Festival Lite, or Flite for short. The speech server you need is by Mike Gorse and is called eflite. You compile in
> > that order, then read the eflite docs to get the appropriate incantation. I put mine in a shell script called e. Everything you need is at:
> > 
> > http://eflite.sf.net
> > 
> > jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov writes:
> > > From: jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > Sorry about the off topic post.  I am trying to get emacspeak to work.  I 
> > > at first thought that when you invoked emacspeak that it would bring up my 
> > > festival server.  I then tried:
> > > festival --tts --server &
> > > emacspeak
> > > Of course I killed speakup in the emacspeak console.  Well, emacspeak 
> > > doesn't speak.  What am I doing wrong?
> > > 
> > >      Jim
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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