Re:gnome-speech stability with the DECtalk driver

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Oana said that you had to rename the other GNOME_Speech_*.server files 
in /usr/lib/bonobo/servers if you wanted to force gnopernicus to use 
Festival instead of other drivers.

Although this brute-force approach _will_ work, it should not be 
necessary.  If you are able to use gnopernicus as-is, you can set all 
your voices to use Festival, in the "Speech" section of the gnopernicus 
"Settings" dialog.  If you can't use gnopernicus as-is, then you can use 
gconftool-2 to change the settings manually.  It's a little tedious, but 
it can be done that way.  For a listing of your existing settings, run

gconftool-2 -R /apps/gnopernicus/speech/voices_parameters

And to see the available drivers, use

gconftool-2 -R /apps/gnopernicus/speech/drivers

For more information on using gconftool-2, try "gconftool-2 --help"

regards

Bill