Re: no speech out of gnopernicus except welcome

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi John,

> Also, since I do have the Dec talk hardware, can I use that instead
> of festival and if so, how do I change the synth I am using?
> I think we are getting there, but we do have those annoying xml files
> which its hard to figure out what they do.

Note that the GNOME Speech DECtalk driver is for the software DECtalk
TTS synthesizer, not the physical hardware unit attached to a serial
port. Specifically, it's there to take advantage of the $50.00 download
available from Fonix for their Linux version. See:

http://www.fonix.com/products/dectalk/rt_linux/

for more details.