Re: [orca-list] IBMTTS and slackware

["Chris Gilland: Desktop" <chrisgilland carolina rr com>]

Michael, I tried getting TT-Sunth working on Ubuntu.  Trust me, I only got 
it to work once and don't know ho the hell I did it.  Trust me dude, it's 
not worth it.  that's why I no longer am a linux user.  The speech just 
isn't bvery good, I hate Festival, and I cannot stand! ESpeak, and frankly, 
I dono what the people who made it and say it sounds good were smoakin. 
It's very flangy, and just God aweful in my opinino.  I've bought TT-Sunth. 
Now frankly, if anyone using Hartsy can get this thing speaking, ya know 
what I'll personally do?  I'll send you my copy to try it with, frankly, and 
if it works for you, I'll then even hell, give you the money on PayPal to 
buy your own license of the thing and remove my copy, that is, assuming you 
can get it working on my system.  Again, that's the deeal, getting it 
working on your system's only half of it, you then gotyta get it to work on 
my Hartsy machine.  I even bought Capstral David and can't get the stupid 
thing to work.  I have tried both voices in both gnome speech and speech 
dispatcher and they just will not show up in the list of synths.  O, sure, 
they install fine, they register fine, but, they won't show up, period.  I 
don't care what libraries I get.  Someone said I needed something called 
IBM-gnome-speech or something, but that it wasn't in the apt repositories. 
So, where can I go to get it, and is there anyone who can take over my case 
here and help me with this till we get it running?  Again, I'll pay you the 
$40 for the synth, but, only if we can get it working.  I don't have time to 
deal with this any longer and people saying well, yeah, I will help you, but 
it's gonna be tough or what not, I know that.  This is why I have said, I 
want help from soneone who darn well knows! they can make it work, 
regardless what we gotta do.  I'm sorry but the only way I'm going back to 
Linux is if we can get TT-Syunth or Capstral, preferably TT-Synth, Reed, 
Adult male1 to work.  I promise that I will not! bother the list again after 
it';s working.  I just can't use an OS if it has speech I cannot audibly 
understand.  I respect 90 percent of you like ESpeak, and about half of that 
90 percent literally swear by it, but, I'm sorry, gag me with a spoon! 
Unless I can either get donated an old braille display, or can get a good 
sounding synth like Eloquence, I will not! be going back to any distro of 
Linux.  I'd even be willing to do another distro from Ubuntu, assuming we 
could get gnome working and get Orca working with TT-Synth.  Otherwise, I am 
sorry, but, I won't have it.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:36 PM
Subject: [orca-list] IBMTTS and slackware


> Hello,
> I know this has come up before, but I can't remember any actual final
> conclusion.
>
> Whilst I thought espeak was fast enough, I found I had to use a windows
> machine last week, and it reminded me how I do actually use eloquence in
> windows faster than I have espeak. This has got me thinking whether I
> should get IBMTTS for linux, but I have a few questions.
>
> I know that IBMTTS requires an old compatibility library, which I am
> unsure is provided in slackware. So how could I go about trying to get
> this library? Does anyone know of a suitable slackware package for it?
> If not how might I go about providing this myself from source (I had a
> look around for the source code I might need, but all libstdc++ seems to
> have numbers such as 6.0.x etc much highrt than what the TTSynth site
> suggests, 2.9.6 or 2.9.5). Could it be possible to use a package from a
> different distribution, eg. I remember back in the days when I used
> trplayer, I could use rpm2tgz to convert the realplayer 8 package into a
> slackware package and it worked fine, but I suspect that for libstdc++
> compatibility libraries things may not be so simple.
>
> This brings me on to another question, whether to use voxin or ttsynth?
> The ttsynth website says there won't be any support provided, so I guess
> this means if I buy ttsynth and can't get it working then I am on my own
> and may have wasted money on it. Might things be better with voxin,
> their website says that voxin includes the libstdc++ compatibility
> library (I guess for debian or ubuntu as those are the distros
> mentioned).
>
> Alternatively I am wondering whether it would be best save the money and
> stick with espeak as it is good and works, where as ibmtts sounds like I
> may hit all sorts of compatibility issues and potentially have no
> support from the seller.
>
> Michael Whapples
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