Re: viavoice

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Alex,

> I have found a copy of viavoice floating around and I want to give it a 
> try with gnopernicus.
> The only problem is there are about 15 files in the viavoice directory. 
> which components do I need? and is there any docs somewhere on setting 
> up gnome-speech with viavoice?

There are older, unsupported copies of ViaVoice available on the Internet 
for Linux - likely what you found.  I forget which files need to be put 
where to make this work, but be warned even if you make it work, you will 
likely experience a lot of crashes when using it with Gnopernicus.  There 
are a number of known bugs with that older, unsupported ViaVoice, and 
Gnopernicus seems to tickle them quite well.


There was an announcement recently that Wizzard Software will be 
distributing a supported ViaVoice (see http://wizzardsoftware.com/).  I 
don't know what their individual pricing is; I don't beleive it has been 
announced yet.  Another ocommercial ption to consider as well is DECTalk 
from Fonix (see http://www.fonix.com/page.cfm?name=espeech_dectalk), which 
also works with Gnopernicus.  Finally, the commercial Cepstral Theta engine 
is supported by gnome-speech (go to http://www.cepstral.com/).  One nice 
thing about Cepstral - you can purchase Solaris versions from their website.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team