gnome-speech stability with the DECtalk driver

[Oana Serb <os baum ro>]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:36, Oana Serb wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:50, remus draica wrote:
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > From: Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>
> > To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: gnome-speech stability with the DECtalk driver.
> > Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:16:40 -0600
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:27:54AM +0200, remus draica wrote:
> > > Does Braille Monitor still work after the crash? Because no such problem was reported for another driver and gnopernicus doesn't care what TTS is used, it seems to be a gnome-speech problem? 
> > > Does gnopernicus work well with another TTS (festival, freetts)? 
> > > Try to run all tests from gnome-speech/test/test-speech program and check if all work fine for DECtalk.
> > > 
> > Hi.  I can't answer your question about Braille Monitor since I'm
> > totally blind and use speech to get access to my computer.
> > All the tests using test-speech seem to work for DECtalk.  I'm not sure
> > what was supposed to happen with the "Wait test", but it didn't crash
> > speaking the sentences.
> > No matter if I choose male or female, I get all DECtalk voices.
> > For now, my only other synth is festival.  The festival driver doesn't
> > seem to have the same problems.
> > 
> > Is it possible to make Gnopernicus use a specific gnome-speech driver
> > with a command line option?  Since I have Gnopernicus configured to use
> > the DECtalk driver by default, I'd like a way to try restarting it with
> > the festival driver from a command line.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> >           Kenny
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If you want to make Gnopernicus use only the festival driver you have to
> rename the other drivers from the directory where Gnome Speech drivers
> are built  (libdir/bonobo/servers, where "libdir" is the path where the
> libraries for Gnome Speech are installed). 
> 
> In this directory, each driver starts with
> "GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_" followed by the name of the driver.
> Rename all the drivers, except the festival driver which is
> "GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival.server".
> 
> After that, you have to restart your computer.
> 
> Regards,
> Oana Serb  
> 

Hi,

On the CVS is the latest version of Gnome Speech which is a better
implementation because Festival has speech markers.

Regards,
Oana Serb
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