On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 14:59 +0530, Aditya Pandey wrote: > On normal Fedora Core 4 installation, gnome-speech/festival > combination does not work due to some issues with festival-synthesis- > driver. festival --server command dies as defunct. > So I removed the GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival.server, and > decided to install FreeTTS instead. > Reference: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility- > list/2005-May/msg00001.html
I had the same problem on FC4, so forcibly removed Festival. I installed ibmtts (viavoice), and test-speech works fine now. > > While festival is installed well, and recompiled gnome-speech-0.3.8 > also takes up everything well, still it fails on > bonovo_activation_activate_from_id call in select_server function of > test-speeh.c saying > > Error activating service: Child process did not give an error message, > unknown failure occured (BONOBO:GeneralError: 1.0) > > So what i did was to run by hand freetts-synthesis-driver > and then run test-speech and everything worked !!! I just rebooted. :-) -- George (gk4) _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
