Re: [orca-list] emacspeak

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 19:28 +0300, Veli-Pekka TÃtilà wrote:
> mattias <mj mjw se> wrote:
> > has anyone get emacspeak up and running on ubuntu 8?
> > how to do it?
> If someone manages to do this, please let me know, too. I hate F-Lite
> with a vengeance! I would far prefer to use Festival, whose Finnish and
> Brit English voices automagically appeared in Orca after I got the
> voices in  Synaptic, also in Emacspeak. The bad thing about this auto
> magic is that I  don't really understand speech dispatcher, and given a
> choice, wouldn't  really want to, <bashful smile>.
It appears that you can use festival from emacspeak. You will need
espeakf (notice the "f", not to be mistaken with espeak). There is a
sourceforge project for espeakf (http://espeakf.sf.net) although it
doesn't seem obvious there about downloading it, the standard
sourceforge information page for the project is at
(http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/espeakf). I haven't paid attention
to when the last release was, it may be best just to get it from cvs
(unless ubuntu provides a package for espeakf). I don't know how well it
works as I don't use it as I use viavoice now (whilst viavoice has not
got the Finish voices you want, it does have British voices). Viavoice
is fairly simple to get working with emacspeak.

Michael Whapples
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