Re: Gnopernicus Fedora and Festival

[Marc Mulcahy <Marc Mulcahy Sun COM>]

Saqib,

for some reason, it sounds like your Gnopernicus came up with no support 
enabled.  You need to go into the startup preferences dialog and select 
speech.  the buttons in the preferences dialog will then be available.

Marc

On 
Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> HI
> 
> I recently installed Fedora.  I selected to have the Gnome desktop option
> installed.
> 
> Surprisingly, I found that Gnopernicus and Gnome-speech were not installed,
> despite these being part of Gnome 2.4 - oh well.
> 
> So, I installed the following packages in this order:
> Gnome-speech-devel
> Gnome-speech
> Gnopernicus
> 
> Then, I installed Festival from the CDs, as it wasn't installed by default.
> I installed the following packages:
> Festival-devel
> Festival
> 
> I tested Festival and it works (indicating that my sound card also works).
> 
> Now when I run Gnopernicus there is no speech.  Just the main window
> appearing.  When I click on preferences, all the buttons are grayed out
> (e.g. Speech, Braille, etc).  How do I make Gnopernicus recognise Festival
> and use it to talk?  So near yet so far!
> 
> I should mention that all this was done by a sighted friend.
> 
> Thanks, Saqib
> 
> 
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