Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like eSpeak. It rocks! sudo apt-get install espeak speech-dispatcher edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and uncomment the espeak-generic module and make it the default. You may also wish to comment out the festival module. Edit the

more than one synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
can you have more than one software synthesiser on a Linux system, for example Dectalk and Espeak and be able to switch to the one you want in Orca? ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Bill Haneman wrote: Michael: You can use orca with DECtalk. To do so, you will need to rebuild gnome-speech, since by default the DECtalk driver is not built and installed. I believe that gnome-speech will build and install the DECtalk drivers if DECtalk is detected on your system when

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Henrik: Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there licensing reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk support or technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags then I can ask our packagers to make a DECtalk-enabled version available. The issue

Re: more than one synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Absolutely. I have Dectalk, Festival, FreeTTS, etc all built and compiled in gnome speech and it is easy as cake to switch to another synth in orca. Smile. MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: can you have more than one software synthesiser on a Linux system, for example Dectalk and Espeak and

laptop specification

2006-12-02 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
Should my Compaq Presario Laptop be able to run Edgy as Live from the Desktop CD when the process is a intel Celeron 1.30 ghz? Tried to run Orca during bootup, I have tried F5, 3 and enter twice when the drive has paused, before it has paused and even after it has paused but no speech and even

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Haneman
Lukas Loehrer wrote: Willie Walker writes (Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?): We recently looked at making a gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, but the main problem is that the eSpeak libraries have no facilities for sending samples to the audio device. Instead, it relies

Re: more than one synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can have as many software synthesizers as you want and switch to them from Orca as long as there is a gnome-speech driver for each synthesizer. Synthesizers that use speech-dispatcher have a gnome-speech driver in Ubuntu Edgy. The only problem

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Janina Sajka
Hi, All: Willie Walker writes: Hi Henrik: Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there licensing reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk support or technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags then I can ask our packagers to make a