Re: gnopernicus and festival are working for me

[Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck valstar net>]

Hi Bill,

I am puzzled about why it is now working for me. Here is what I
did to make it work:

I created a new account on my system and copied some
initialization files from the one I have been using routinely to
the new one. The only files relevant to the Gnopernicus situation
were ".profile" and ".xinitrc". I copied them from the old
account to the new one without making any changes. Then I typed
"startx" and it spoke to me. It never did so on the old account.

I see one problem already. I am using the speakup patches to the
kernel in order to get speech access to the text consoles. Those
patches use a keymap that dedicates the numeric keypad to screen
review functions. When Gnome is running, that keymap is still
active, and I cannot use the keypad to control Gnopernicus. What
I did was to move about the Gnome screen with the true cursor
keys to hear the festival speech announcing different objects on
the desktop.

I have not had a lot of experience playing with keymaps and am
reluctant to experiment without knowing what I am doing.

Chuck

On 11 Nov 2002, Bill Haneman wrote:

> Hi Chuck:
>
> That is great news!  I am sorry it's been a relatively hard push to get
> there - you are really 'bleeding edge' now ;-).
>
> Hopefully you can help us make it easier for others to follow; also I
> know the recent churn in gnome-speech made things harder, but I trust
> the end product will be well worth it, thanks to Marc's efforts.  Thanks
> for hanging in there :-)
>
> -Bill
>
> > I am happy as a clam in butter!
> >
> > Chuck
>
>
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