| Hi Nidhal: If the gnome-speech "test-speech" application is installed on your distribution, try running it. Select the Festival synthesis driver and see if it can speak. If it doesn't, try running festival by hand: [wwalker gnome ~]$ festival Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.95:beta July 2004 Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2004. All rights reserved. For details type `(festival_warranty)' festival> (SayText 'testing) #<Utterance 0xb70e85b8> festival> If that works, then you're most likely running into the dreaded /etc/hosts problem (http://www.speechio.org/speechio.faq.html): "You probably have a line in it similar to: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost You need to modify that line so that the first item is "127.0.0.1", and the second item is "localhost", like so: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain" To do more testing: 1) First, kill all festival processes that might be running on your machine. 2) Run festival-synthesis-driver in a separate window 3) Run test-speech and keep an eye on what's going on in the festival-synthesis-driver window Will PS - For your distribution, your path of least resistance is probably to get Festival working right now. Then, if you more daring, you can work on getting FreeTTS working, but it takes a little bit of work. On Aug 23, 2005, at 10:19 AM, nidhal wrote:
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