Re: gnopernicus startup error

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

Adi,

The test with test-speech works well for me with FreeTTS but when I start GNOME 
the speech is so fast I cannot understand it.

Can I do anything about that?

Padraig

> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> You don't have to start the server.
> 
> What you have to do is follow the next 4 steps:
> 1. Make sure you have FreeTTS installed on your machine.
> 1.1.If you don't OR you have it from the FreeTTS download page I recommend 
> you to get it from their CVS (SourceForge) anonymously:
> 
> $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/freetts co FreeTTS
> (There is no password, so just press "Return".)
> 
> More instructions on how to do this is at:
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=42080
> 
> 1.2 If you have FreeTTS installed on your system jump to step 3.
> 
> 2. Build FreeTTs
> 2.1. copy speech.properties from source-dir of FreeTTS to your home directory
> 2.2. in the source-dir run "make"
> 2.3. in the source-dir run "make jars"
> 
> 3. get gnome-speech from gnome's CVS:
> $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome
> $ cvs login
> (There is no password, so just press "Return".) You only need to run this 
> command once , not every time you access CVS.
> 
> $ cvs -z3 co gnome-speech
> 
> 4. Build, compile and install gnome-speech with FreeTTS support:
> 4.1. Configure
> $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=dir_where_gnome_stack_is 
> --with-freetts-dir=dir_which_contains_FreeTTS'_jar_files
> (eg: 
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome-2.2 --with-freetts-dir=/FreeTTS/lib)
> 4.2. Compile
> $ make
> 4.3 Uninstall old drivers
> $ make uninstall
> 4.4. Install new drivers you've just built
> $ make install
> 4.5. Test gnome-speech
> $ test-speech
> 
> If this test of gnome-speech is working with FreeTTS driver there should be 
> NO problem running gnopernicus with FreeTTS.
> 
> 
> > I'm using freetts but don't know if I have to start a speech server first
> > as they do for festival.
> For festival you don't have to start the speech server either, but have 
> "festival" binary somewhere in your PATH (so it can be found)
> Test if you have it somewhere "accessibile" by typing "festival in the 
> command line:
> 
> $ festival
> 
> If festival is running this way ( if (SayText "testing festival") works fine) 
> than you will have no problem using festival driver with gnopernicus.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > Chris
> 
> HTH && Best regards,
> Adi Dascal
> BAUM Engineering
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