Re: [orca-list] Install/select Festival in Orca on Ubuntu 16.04

[Kristof Nijs <kristof nijs xxs gmail com>]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for your answer.
If I understand correctly, I just have to get some patience.

Let us know on the orca-list when you find a solution.

With kind regards,
Kristof


2017-03-05 23:52 GMT+01:00, Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 02:35:42AM AEDT, Kristof Nijs wrote:
> > Festival is installed and I tested it in terminal. Also when brltty is
> > running on start up, I hear the voice until Orca starts up.
> > Altough, Festival doesn't show up in the Orca "Voice" menu.
> >
> > Is it possible to use Festival on Ubuntu 16.04?
> > How can I make Festival show up in the Orca menu?
>
> The Festival driver for Speech Dispatcher requires that Festival be run in
> server mode. You can start festival with "festival --server", and then
> re-start speech-dispatcher, and then Orca should see Festival.
>
> Really what needs to be done is extend the Festival Speech Dispatcher driver
>
> to start festival itself. This is one of the many things on my TODO list.
>
> Luke
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