Re: DecTalk and Gnopernicus

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, David.
You can get the Freetts synth, demos,  etc from:
http://freetts.sourceforge.net
Note, it also requires the junit libraries for proformence tuning,  and in
order to use it with gnopernicus you will require the java-access-bridtge
for gnome installed before compiling gnome-speech.
You'll also have to pass options to configure in order for gnome-speech to
link with freetts etc...
Hth.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Csercsics <kajarii telus net>
To: Thomas D. Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: DecTalk and Gnopernicus


> Where does one get FreeTTS. I've heard god things about this synth. It
> apparently works well with emacspeak too I am a very fast typist and
> ave noticed the prblems that ou describe with the DECTalk stuff as
> well. I'd like to try FreeTTS and see how tat goes. Especially since
> the emacspeak dectalk server still fails to work correctly on Slackware
> 9 even after building tcl from source. The dectalk synth itself wors
> fine but the tcl script just hags at the message:
> Calling TTS startup.
> So it's not that useful.
> I supppose t's good that I don'tuse speech that often as I prefer
> braille but it'd be nice to have some useable speech for things like
> irc.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:20:05PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> > Hi. While the Dectalk really sounds good it does have responce problems.
I
> > have found Freetts to be much more responsive for fast typing, editing,
> > etc...
> > I've also found gnopernicus is more likely to crash with the dectalk,
but
> > once I switched to Freetts the crashes seased.
> > Hth.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Luke Yelavich <lukethemuso ozemail com au>
> > To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 12:43 AM
> > Subject: DecTalk and Gnopernicus
> >
> >
> > > Hi all
> > > I am thinking of getting the DecTalk soft synth from Fonix to use with
> > > Emacspeak, Yasr, and Gnopernicus.
> > >
> > > When I listened to the Main Menu review of Gnopernicus with DecTalk,
the
> > > speech was not very responsive at all, not nearly as much as Via Voice
> > was.
> > >
> > > I am wondering whether this has improved, or whether it will improve
in
> > the
> > > future, as the size of DecTalk itself is what is most appealing to me,
and
> > > I would like to use Gnopernicus for testing and eventually when it
becomes
> > > stable.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Luke
> > >
> > >
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