Re: [orca-list] Begging for help

["James & Nash" <james austin1984 googlemail com>]

Hi Chris,

Paul is absolutely correct with what he said about Voxin. He beat me to it 
lol. i also have Voxin. The installation instructions for Ubuntu are on the 
site and you can buy the installation packages via Paypal.

HTH
James
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hunt" <huntp ukonline co uk>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Begging for help


> Hi,
>
> By far and away the easiest way to get the eloquence/viavoice synth 
> working on Ubuntu is to buy it from
>
> http://voxin.oralux.net/
>
> It only costs 4.29 EUR (or $5.78) for one language.
>
> The installer will install the voice and the gnome-speech driver for you 
> and then it'll just work.  I'm using it right now on Ubuntu.
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Gilland" <chrisgilland carolina rr com>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:21 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Begging for help
>
>
> > I have an incredibly! bad hearing loss.  About the only synth I really can 
> > comfortably understand is Eloquence/TT Synth set to either Reed, or to 
> > Glenn.  Preferably Reed.  I know, most a yall hate Eloquence, and prefer e 
> > speak, but it's all I can really understand.  I can't even really 
> > understand Festival that well, let alone! E Speak.  I'm not !giving up on 
> > this question till someone can help me on, or off list.  I have the IBM 
> > gnome speech viavoice runtime rpm package, so I assume, I could probably 
> > use apt-get and get rpm, so that I could install it, but, my thing is 
> > this. I also've gone to ttsynth.com and gotten the Ubuntu .deb installer 
> > for the C++V2 library that is missing.  I was able when I last ran Ubuntu, 
> > to get that installed, but I'm sorry to say, even with that done, once I 
> > then ran the setup for TT Synth, and put in my serial number, etc. it 
> > sill! even after restarting my entire machine didn't see TT Synth in the 
> > list.  I hope you don't have to rebuild gnome-speech, as I haven't a clue 
> > how to do that! The one time I tried, I broke it so darn good, that a 
> > Linux guru told me it couldn't even be fixed, and we had to reinstall.  I 
> > would! use speech dispatcher, but I dono if TT Synth is supported and even 
> > if it is, I don't even hardly understand what speech dispatcher is! let 
> > alone! how to instrall it.  I red the docs on how it worked but it went 
> > way over my head. Maybe I'm just not as techy as I think, but...
> >
> > I did this once and actually got it working, but I think I did so back in 
> > 6.10, way! back when, and even then! I remember having a ton of trouble 
> > getting it to work.  I dont' even recall what I finally did.  Now, I am 
> > trying to do this on Hardy 8.04, I think it is?  It's V8, I know that.
> >
> > Anyway, yes I have had people tell me go download X Y and Z, then install 
> > A B and C, in D E and F order, then do G H and I, but they didn't really 
> > tell me how specifically to carry out the tasks.  If someone could either 
> > get with me on or off list one on one and work with me through this, I'd 
> > greatly! appreciate it.  I hate I paid all this for the synth but now 
> > have no real way to use it.  Please only respond if you've actually from 
> > ground1 up gotten TT Synth on your end fully working.  I don't mean well, 
> > I got the library installed...  I mean, unless you physically have gotten 
> > it to the point where T T Synth was running, you could hear it and all, 
> > please don't waste my time.  I'm sorry and I know I sound a little rude 
> > by saying that. Believe me I mean well, it's just I am very frustrated, 
> > as I've gone through this so many times.  This is basically my final 
> > attempt. I'm on my very? last limb.  If I can't get it working this time, 
> > I'll probably be unsubscribing from here, and not using Linux again until 
> > there is a better sollution.  I know there is DecTalk, and Cepstral, but 
> > I can't afford Dectalk, and I couldn't get Cepstral to work even after 
> > following the Wiki pages, plus I don't even think I kept my 
> > key/installer.  I think i pretty well gave up on it.
> >
> > Chris.
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