Re: Gnopernicus on RH9 - very fast speech

[Luke Yelavich <lukethemuso ozemail com au>]

Hi Rich
Have you tried switching to layer 8 and attempting to adjust the voice rate 
from there?

Luke

At 06:55 AM 22/11/2003, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> I finally managed to compile gnome-speech with freeTTS.
>
> The test-speech program works, and the voice sounds fine. However, when I
> run gnopernicus, either via the console with srcore or from the gui, speech
> is very fast (unintelligible), and a sighted friend fiddling with the speech
> preferences dialog couldn't seem to slow things down. There didn't seem to
> be a master rate; he had to change the rates within each voice and see if it
> had an effect.
>
> Any idea what's going on? I've enabled the propper gconf2 key and recompiled
> gnome-speech several times.
>
> So close, but yet so far!!!
>
>                     Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Mulcahy" <
> Marc Mulcahy Sun COM>
>
> To: "Saqib Shaikh" <
> S Shaikh sussex ac uk>
>
> Cc: <
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>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Gnopernicus Fedora and Festival
>
> 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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