Re: gnopernicus and free tts

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Cody,

>  How can I get gnopernicus to workwith free tts without going threw the 
> hastle of installing all this junk for festival? I just need to get it 
> to talk, also, When ever I bring up the run application box, I type in 
> gnopernicus, but  I hear no speech, and I see no windows pop up. I see 
> nothing down in my task bar. I run Linux xp. I know it has gnopernicus 
> cause I have seen it on here and brought it up. thanks

Yes, you don't need Festival if you have another TTS engine installed that has 
a gnome-speech driver.  If you have gnome-speech installed, you should have 
the program 'test-speech'.  Use this to get a list of your installed 
text-to-speech engines.  If you don't see it with test-speech, Gnopernicus 
won't see it either.

gnome-speech comes with drivers for FreeTTS.  Once you have FreeTTS installed, 
you can use the gnome-speech driver for it.  Best to install FreeTTS first, 
then build gnome-speech (and tell it where to find FreeTTS on your system).


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibilityt eam