Re: [orca-list] Fw: query regarding new festival voice's speech output

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Vinodh:

>   I am trying to use a newly created Festival Indian language voice with orca.
> The Indian language voice works with festival (v 1.96 beta), taking in
> transliterated text as the input for synthesis. But, i could not get orca
> speak the same transliterated text, when the text is highlighted.
>
>   I have tried to make it work in ubuntu(8.1) and also in fedora(fc10), but in
> vain. Please provide pointers as to how to go about debugging why the speech
> output is not provided for the newly created voice. (The default festival
> voice - kal_diphone- works fine with orca ). Thanking in advance.

You might take a look at the "Troubleshooting" section of 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech.  It might be as simple as a 
configuration problem (e.g., missing a line in /etc/hosts).

Will