Re: compiling or obtaining gnome-speech; also festival and orca on debian

[Thomas Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi,

Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> 1. I can't get the version of gnome-speech recommended for orca to  
> compile on my debian unstable system. It hangs after checking for  
> javac and responding "yes" in the configure. Does anybody know what  
> might be the cause for this and is there an up-to-date version of  
> gnome-speech in debian unstable.

Hmm... This is only a guess but if it is finding javac it must be seeing 
an installation of your Sun jdk. You may have to pass some special 
configurations to ./configure to ignore anything java related, and not 
to look for FreeTTS which it is probably doing after looking for javac 
then hanging.

> 2. While I can get orca to work with brltty on my system, I can't get  
> orca to use festival though festival does work from the command line.  
>   

Have you tried running test-speech that comes with gnome-speech? That 
tool would help you resolve any driver related issues with festival. If 
test-speech can't see festival and then orca wouldn't either. Likewise 
if it sees it orca should see it as well.