Re: [orca-list] Problems installing orca on quite old system

["W.P." <laurentp wp pl>]

UÅytkownik MichaÅ Zegan napisaÅ:
> Again, use espeak. compare your problems with utf-8 vs ifo-8859-2 to no
> problems with espeak.
> First just install espeak, then run orca preferences and look in the
> speech page if you can select a synthesizer.
> Of course, after installing espeak, restart orca and check.
> If not, look if you can install gnome-speech drivers, if you can,
> install espeak one and switch synthesizers.
>   

Some progress: keyword was: GNOME-speech drivers. Package name
gnome-speech-espeak.
Now I can choose espeak as synthetiser. (but what robotc voice...).

> You won't have problems, even with the fact that you use utf-8, because
> gtk/gnome normally use utf-8 and I'm using it too with espeak.
> It worked the first time when I installed it, while festival worked as
> you described it and didn't speak polish chars, also stopping at them.
>   
OK, espeak is some workaround. But let's try Festival: how to tell Orca
to output iso8859-2? (or how to make a wrapper around festival part Orca
calls)?

W.P.

>               Dnia 2011-02-10, czw o godzinie 17:44 +0100, W.P. pisze:
>   
> > UÅytkownik W.P. napisaÅ:
> >     
> > > UÅytkownik MichaÅ Zegan napisaÅ:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > It is possible that gnome-speech won't have any espeak driver.
> > > > But, actually, just install espeak. festival is a turbo-mess.
> > > >   
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > <cut>
> > suggestion from Polish newsgroup: "I have tried once to make Festival
> > work with UTF-8 but I gave up".
> >
> > So now question could be: hot to tell orca to output text excoded in
> > iso8859-2 (old, official encoding) instead of UTF-8?
> >
> > Despite system setting LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8. (but changing this at runtime
> > changes nothing).
> >
> > W.P.
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