Re: No speech, and magnifier question

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Terrence,

FreeTTS and Festival are two different, though related, TTS engines.  The 
Festival configuration requires permissions to be set in the /etc/festival.scm 
file to be used in client-server mode.  FreeTTS is a port/rewrite of 
Festival-light (aka Flite) to Java.  It requires a 1.4 compatible Java runtime.

Run the program 'test-speech' to find out what TTS engines are installed with 
gnome-speech drivers configured properly for them.  This is a useful debugging 
step when you have trouble getting Gnopernicus to talk.  If you can't get 
speech via test-speech, then the problem is upstream of your screen reader.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

Terrence van Ettinger wrote:
> Hi, Bill,
> 	I did respond in another message with my distro information, but
> it doesn't seem to have reached the list.  I'm running Debian Sarge on
> an eMachines 433mhz PC.  The thing has 2 hard drives, and the other hard
> drive is running Oralux.  I looked for an option to use Festival as my
> driver, but it doesn't show up, even though I've installed it with
> aptitude.  So does Festival work *through* freetts?  I looked for a
> 	freetts package from Debian, but they don't seem to have one.
> 	Is that something I have to get separately?  I read several of
> 	the messages, but was still kind of confused by them.
>
> Thanks,
> Terrence
>
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