Re: Gnopernicus on RH9 - very fast speech

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

OK, I've got things slowed down by using the numpad... I've finally heard my
first intelligible utterance from gnopernicus! Awesome...

Now, I'm going to try some other synthesizer. My configuratin is very very
slow. I'm running on a 500MHZ intel machine with freeTTS, and it takes about
half to three quarters of a second from the time I press a key to the time I
start getting feedback. When I click a button, say to open preferences, it
takes about 3 seconds for the whole set of utterences "creating window,
switching..., read focused control" to happen. Very very frustrating. I can
only imagine how slow it must be to actually do anything real!!

How can I logout from the desktop with the keyboard? The only choice I have
now is to reboot from an ssh session ...


Thanx for reading all my stupid questions!

                    Rich


The keys don't seem to work very well - i.e., the "default" rate pitch and
volumes are way out of line and the settings as they are being changed will
suddenly change to some other value as I fiddle with other settings. When I
then switch out of this mode with the numlock key, the voice suddenly
changes again.  I assume this is because different voices are used to speak
different 'arts of the gui, but its unclear how these speech settings mapped
to layer 8 of the numpad relate to each voice.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Gnopernicus on RH9 - very fast speech


I finally managed to compile gnome-speech with freeTTS.

The test-speech program works, and the voice sounds fine. However, when I
run gnopernicus, either via the console with srcore or from the gui, speech
is very fast (unintelligible), and a sighted friend fiddling with the speech
preferences dialog couldn't seem to slow things down. There didn't seem to
be a master rate; he had to change the rates within each voice and see if it
had an effect.

Any idea what's going on? I've enabled the propper gconf2 key and recompiled
gnome-speech several times.

So close, but yet so far!!!

                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Mulcahy" <
Marc Mulcahy Sun COM>

To: "Saqib Shaikh" <
S Shaikh sussex ac uk>

Cc: <
gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>

Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: Gnopernicus Fedora and Festival

Saqib,

for some reason, it sounds like your Gnopernicus came up with no support
enabled.  You need to go into the startup preferences dialog and select
speech.  the buttons in the preferences dialog will then be available.

Marc

On
Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> HI
>
> I recently installed Fedora.  I selected to have the Gnome desktop option
> installed.
>
> Surprisingly, I found that Gnopernicus and Gnome-speech were not
installed,
> despite these being part of Gnome 2.4 - oh well.
>
> So, I installed the following packages in this order:
> Gnome-speech-devel
> Gnome-speech
> Gnopernicus
>
> Then, I installed Festival from the CDs, as it wasn't installed by
default.
> I installed the following packages:
> Festival-devel
> Festival
>
> I tested Festival and it works (indicating that my sound card also works).
>
> Now when I run Gnopernicus there is no speech.  Just the main window
> appearing.  When I click on preferences, all the buttons are grayed out
> (e.g. Speech, Braille, etc).  How do I make Gnopernicus recognise Festival
> and use it to talk?  So near yet so far!
>
> I should mention that all this was done by a sighted friend.
>
> Thanks, Saqib
>
>
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