Re: gnopernicus and free tts

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Cody,

This question is probably best answered by the gnome-speech experts, who live 
on this list.  Nontheless, I'll give it a go...

You'll want the lastest version of gnome-speech, which I believe is 0.39.  If 
you have gnome-speech installed, you should have 'test-speech' somewhere on 
your system (commonly in /usr/bin).  It should find and load the drivers 
automatically (that is part of what it does).  If it loads a driver, but then 
the driver doesn't talk (e.g. Festival driver loaded but not speaking), it 
means the engine isn't installed, or isn't installed properly.


Hmmm... Another question for you: what relese of what OS are you using?


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

Cody Hurst wrote:
> hi pete,
>  I hope I have the gnome speech installed, or otherwise it will be 
> hunting for a thousand other dependencies. do versions numbers matter? 
> can I just pick the latest and it will work? If I have gnome speech 
> installed, how do I get it to start working? how do I load the driver. 
> is test speech another program that comes with gnome speech?
>
> Cody
>
>
> > From: Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>
> > To: Cody Hurst <cody_hurst hotmail com>
> > CC: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: gnopernicus and free tts
> > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:04:38 -0800
> >
> > Hi Cody,
> >
> > >  How can I get gnopernicus to workwith free tts without going threw 
> > > the hastle of installing all this junk for festival? I just need to 
> > > get it to talk, also, When ever I bring up the run application box, I 
> > > type in gnopernicus, but  I hear no speech, and I see no windows pop 
> > > up. I see nothing down in my task bar. I run Linux xp. I know it has 
> > > gnopernicus cause I have seen it on here and brought it up. thanks
> >
> >
> > Yes, you don't need Festival if you have another TTS engine installed 
> > that has a gnome-speech driver.  If you have gnome-speech installed, 
> > you should have the program 'test-speech'.  Use this to get a list of 
> > your installed text-to-speech engines.  If you don't see it with 
> > test-speech, Gnopernicus won't see it either.
> >
> > gnome-speech comes with drivers for FreeTTS.  Once you have FreeTTS 
> > installed, you can use the gnome-speech driver for it.  Best to 
> > install FreeTTS first, then build gnome-speech (and tell it where to 
> > find FreeTTS on your system).
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibilityt eam
>
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