Re: Orca dectalk synthesiser not available

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi Michael,
> How do you recompile Gnome Speech?
>   

This is described on the Orca wiki. Go to:

 http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuDapperDrake

then look in section 4.2. Here's the full URL:

 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuDapperDrake#head-bb4f73f4e04328250fab0997bc78a168a878f639


> Has it got something to do with changing a line in a certain file in the 
> Dectalk directory?
>   

No. You need to get the gnome-speech sources, then configure, build
and install them.


> There didn't seem to be a locations.sh file.
> I thought that once installation was run it should have configured 
> things unless I am missing something and need to download something else 
> to recompile Gnome Speech.
>
> Thomas Ward wrote:
>   
> > Hi, Michael.
> > Did you recompile gnome-speech? You need to do that to be able to use 
> > the Dectalk software with orca.
> > Hth.
> >
> >
> > MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > some people at my LUG have updated Ubuntu and Orca for me.
> > > They have managed to install Dectalk but we have a problem.
> > > It works when the speech is tested, it works with the Just Say tool.
> > > However, when we ran Orca 0.2.5 which we downloaded from Luke's site for 
> > > some reason Dectalk seems to be unavailable in speech preferences.
> > > Even when we logged off and logged in again and accessed the Orca 
> > > settup, still no option to choose Dectalk.
> > > All I seem to be offered is Gnome Speech.
> > > How do I rectify this problem so I can choose Dectalk?
> > > I am sure it is there from the testing of that synthesiser but Orca 
> > > seems to be treating it like it doesn't exist even though when Ben ran 
> > > the Installation it asked for my registration.
> > >
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