Re: Help Getting Gnome-speech to run Fonix Dectalk 4.6 and Fedora 6

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Beth:

Yech.  Getting speech going can be a pain in the neck for many reasons. 
 Have you tried the troubleshooting notes at 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech?

In addition, where did you install DECtalk?  Did you modify locations.sh 
to point it to /usr instead of /usr/local?  If not, you might try doing 
that.

Hope this helps,

Will

Beth Hatch wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm attempting to compile the Fonix Dectalk 4.6 into the Gnome speech 
> 0.4.9 and when I do this, all appears to go well.  However, whenever I 
> try to choose the Dectalk from Orca version 2.17.91 or by testing it 
> with the test-speech command for Gnome speech, there's no output from 
> Dectalk.  To be more precise, Orca doesn't even show Dectalk as a choice 
> in its preferences/speech combo box, and test-speech gives me this 
> strange error message about "an unknown failure has occurred, unable to 
> start child process."  I've installed the Dectalk driver three times 
> now, and compiled Gnome-speech each time thereafter.  Gnome-speech 
> appears to see the Dectalk because it says it is making the dectalk 
> driver, and it says yes that the driver is made, just as it does for 
> Festival, which works fine with Orca and th test-speech module.
>
>     I followed the Gnome-speech compiler instructions from the Orca Wiki 
> and later from the Beyond Linux from Scratch web site.  If anyone has 
> any suggestions to help me get this up and running, it would be most 
> appreciated.  Please feel free to send private email if you wish.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Beth
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