Re: [orca-list] TTSynth voice question

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

D'Oh!  Someone reminded me you're trying to get the ViaVoice stuff 
working.  Sorry about that.  So...what you wrote is bad news.  It looks 
like the ViaVoice driver either didn't get built or was installed in a 
different location.

Did you specify --prefix=/usr when you ran autogen.sh (or configure)?

Will

Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Bob:
>
> OK -- this is good (I think). Try running 'espeak-synthesis-driver' in 
> one terminal window and 'test-speech' in another. See if eSpeak appears 
> in the list of synthesizers in the 'test-speech' terminal window and/or 
> if any errors appear in the 'espeak-synthesis-driver' terminal window. 
> Something bad might be happening, such as maybe a shared library isn't 
> being found by 'espeak-synthesis-driver'.
>
> Will
>
> Bob Tinney wrote:
> > Hi Will,
> >
> > The command line that you gave me gave two results. Espeak.server and
> > Festaval.server.
> > Do I need to update Orca as I'm running the one that came with the Ubuntu
> > desktop live 7.10 cd? Do I need to install the speech dispatcher driver?
> > One more thing, where do I find these driver update packages or do I 
> > need to
> > compile them first?
> > I am very familiar with the inner workings of windows, but I'm new to 
> > Linux
> > and Ubuntu!
> > Bob, tinneyb charter net, K8LR
> > Skype name: bobtinn
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