Re: [orca-list] Begging for help

["Paul Hunt" <huntp ukonline co uk>]

Hi,

By far and away the easiest way to get the eloquence/viavoice synth working 
on Ubuntu is to buy it from

http://voxin.oralux.net/

It only costs 4.29 EUR (or $5.78) for one language.

The installer will install the voice and the gnome-speech driver for you and 
then it'll just work.  I'm using it right now on Ubuntu.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gilland" <chrisgilland carolina rr com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:21 PM
Subject: [orca-list] Begging for help


> I have an incredibly! bad hearing loss.  About the only synth I really can 
> comfortably understand is Eloquence/TT Synth set to either Reed, or to 
> Glenn.  Preferably Reed.  I know, most a yall hate Eloquence, and prefer e 
> speak, but it's all I can really understand.  I can't even really 
> understand Festival that well, let alone! E Speak.  I'm not !giving up on 
> this question till someone can help me on, or off list.  I have the IBM 
> gnome speech viavoice runtime rpm package, so I assume, I could probably 
> use apt-get and get rpm, so that I could install it, but, my thing is this. 
> I also've gone to ttsynth.com and gotten the Ubuntu .deb installer for the 
> C++V2 library that is missing.  I was able when I last ran Ubuntu, to get 
> that installed, but I'm sorry to say, even with that done, once I then ran 
> the setup for TT Synth, and put in my serial number, etc. it sill! even 
> after restarting my entire machine didn't see TT Synth in the list.  I hope 
> you don't have to rebuild gnome-speech, as I haven't a clue how to do that! 
> The one time I tried, I broke it so darn good, that a Linux guru told me it 
> couldn't even be fixed, and we had to reinstall.  I would! use speech 
> dispatcher, but I dono if TT Synth is supported and even if it is, I don't 
> even hardly understand what speech dispatcher is! let alone! how to 
> instrall it.  I red the docs on how it worked but it went way over my head. 
> Maybe I'm just not as techy as I think, but...
>
> I did this once and actually got it working, but I think I did so back in 
> 6.10, way! back when, and even then! I remember having a ton of trouble 
> getting it to work.  I dont' even recall what I finally did.  Now, I am 
> trying to do this on Hardy 8.04, I think it is?  It's V8, I know that.
>
> Anyway, yes I have had people tell me go download X Y and Z, then install 
> A B and C, in D E and F order, then do G H and I, but they didn't really 
> tell me how specifically to carry out the tasks.  If someone could either 
> get with me on or off list one on one and work with me through this, I'd 
> greatly! appreciate it.  I hate I paid all this for the synth but now have 
> no real way to use it.  Please only respond if you've actually from 
> ground1 up gotten TT Synth on your end fully working.  I don't mean well, 
> I got the library installed...  I mean, unless you physically have gotten 
> it to the point where T T Synth was running, you could hear it and all, 
> please don't waste my time.  I'm sorry and I know I sound a little rude by 
> saying that. Believe me I mean well, it's just I am very frustrated, as 
> I've gone through this so many times.  This is basically my final attempt. 
> I'm on my very? last limb.  If I can't get it working this time, I'll 
> probably be unsubscribing from here, and not using Linux again until there 
> is a better sollution.  I know there is DecTalk, and Cepstral, but I can't 
> afford Dectalk, and I couldn't get Cepstral to work even after following 
> the Wiki pages, plus I don't even think I kept my key/installer.  I think 
> i pretty well gave up on it.
>
> Chris.
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