Re: FreeTTS with Gnome-Speech Question

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Janina,

You have to recompile gnome-speech to make it build the FreeTTS 
driver.  You have to tell gnome-speech where to find FreeTTS when you 
configure its build.  You do this with the --with-freetts-dir directory:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome-2.2 --with-freetts-dir=/home/user/FreeTTS/lib

Ensure that you specify the directory where all the FreeTTS jar files are, 
and it should build and work.

Marc

At 02:58 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I'm tryhing to get Gnopernicus working again. The compiles appear to have 
> gone without a hitch using the latest Red Hat
> betas, named Phoebe. And, Gnopernicus launches just fine.
>
> My problem is that I get Mickey Mouse from Festival, which is the only 
> speech test-speech seems to be able to find.
>
> I have tried both the Red Hat supplied Festival-1.4.2, and a compile of 
> the February release of Festival-1.4.3. Same
> story, speech appears to come at 4-times speed (or even greater).
>
> I get the same undesirable effect from ViaVoice 5.1, which I have only as 
> binaries, of course.
>
> Strangely, Festival Lite, which I compiled afresh, as there's now a 1.2 
> release, works fine.
>
> I have also obtained the j2sdk-1.4.1_02 from sun.com, and have compiled 
> FreeTTS from cvs today. FreeTTS talks
> appropriately when I launch either the freetts (client) or frettsServer 
> scripts. However, test-speech doesn't seem to
> see FreeTTS.
>
> Am I starting them correctly? I cd to the directory containing these 
> scripts and issue ./[script.name] as root. Should I
> do this differently?
>
> NOTE: If, instead, i run the jar script, I get:
>
> ./jarfreetts
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
> com/sun/speech/freetts/FreeTTS
>
> Can I use FreeTTS with gnome-speech? How should I start and test?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
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>                                 Technology Research and Development
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>                                 American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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