Re: Installing speech into Ubuntu?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 2 Jul 2005, at 22:44, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tried this and got package not found error.  I had already installed
> Gnopernicus so would this make a difference?

You could try manually installing festival, if you haven't already--  
installing gnopernicus on Ubuntu on my Powerbook doesn't seem to  
automatically install it for me.

However, I have to say I do get a lot of audio device conflicts on  
Ubuntu (Hoary), and gnopernicus seems to be one of the apps that just  
silently fails rather than giving me a console error when it can't  
output any speech.  You might try killing and restarting the sound  
daemon (which is "esd" by default, IIRC) before you run gnopernicus,  
to see if that helps.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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