Re: test-speech

["Zsolnai Laszlo" <laszlo zsolnai axelero hu>]

Hello,

> Festival appears to be working fine:
>
> lsb_release -a | festival -b --tts
>
> Gnome-speech seems to be the problem; however, I'm not familiar with the
> tool:

Gnome-speech uses Festival in server mode. This means, that Festival runs in 
the background and waits for special commands to be executed. You can check 
if Festival works fine with the program festival_client.

Festival_client can be found normally in /usr/share/bin directory. This 
software is very useful, but not  user friendly. After starting, it reads 
standard input and sends it to Festival server. In order to test the speech 
type in this line:

(SayText "Hello.")

If you hear "hello" Festival is ready to use.

Good luck,

Laszlo