Jonathan Duddington wrote: <snip> >> like play or aplay to play the sound. So if either of these work for >> you and eSpeak is able to produce audio data (but not play them), you >> should be fine. > To test this, you can do: > speak -w test.wav "this is a test" > play test.wav Just did. It generates a wave file and I can play it in Gnome just fine. It doesn't find a program named play, however. Which reminds me, how do I tell whether speech-dispatcher is installed in the first place? The docs state that its config file should be in etc/speech-dispatcher/something or usr/local/etc/speech-dispatcher/something but neither folder exists. nor am I able to find the speech dispatcher config filee mentioned in the docs with the locate command. Ah and I just recently found out that dev DSP doesn't exist either, having tried piping stuff to it.
All this makes me wonder whether speech Dispatcher is installed in the first place. The fact that Gnopernicus tries to use Festival via speech dispatcher, I think, made me think the speech dispatcher program is installed. I went with the default Dapper installation. I've been trying to install speech dispatcher with apt-get with no luck. I only found switches to install, not to search packages. Trying speech dispatcher with or without the dhash, with under scores and javaCasing does nothing. So I suppose I'm using the wrong package name. No luck with synaptic and the string dispatcher, either. By the way, how do I tell whether a package it lists in synaptic is installed or not? Ive been looking through the columns in that multi-column list but found no text string that would say installed, not installed, or something to that effect. Frankly speaking, I'd really need speech to use Gnome effectively. I'm only able to use WIndows for small amounts of time relying on magnification alone, because I know that system. There are basically three things that make gnome more difficult. First the color scheme. The selection is hard to spot. I'd like white text on a black background but something like turquoise for the dialog box backgrounds. So far I haven't found a graphical editor and the default high-contrast schemes don't work well for me. Secondly my Windows magnification program tracks the virtual machine mouse poorly, but that's an OT issue. And finally many of the menus like system or applications seem to have no underlined mnemonics. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
