Need help with Festival and Dectalk Rt
John G. Heim
jheim at wisc.edu
Wed Aug 24 19:07:34 UTC 2005
I think the installer script isn't in your path. Try './installer' (without
the apostrophies).
./installer
Or you can give it the full path to the installer. This depends on where
the script is but it is something like
/home/dcjenn/dectalk/installer
At 10:24 AM 8/24/2005, you wrote:
>I am using a Dectalk Express with Speakup, but I am trying to get
>Gnopernicus to speak with Festival. It's not saying anything. I can't
>even get festival to speak from the comand line. it won't say anything
>when I give it the SayText command either. It would be nice to see if
>Dectalk Rt works but when I type installer it just comes back with no such
>file or directory even though it's sitting right there.At 09:50 AM
>8/24/2005, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>By the sound of it you want to use speakup with software speech. You
>>might know this, but if not, you also need to install speech-dispatcher
>>and speechd_up. You also need to create a device in /dev using mknod and
>>start the software speech in a specific order.
>>I have software speech through these programs going under fedra and
>>debian, so I might be able to help if this is what you want to do.
>>HtH
>>Willem
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, John G. Heim wrote:
>>
>>>At 07:39 PM 8/23/2005, you wrote:
>>>> Hello all. I am new to linux so sorry if I'm asking questions
>>>> that have been answered before. I am having trouble getting festival
>>>> and dectalk to work. I have installed festival but it doesn't seem to
>>>> wan't to talk. I am using Deabian linux 3.1 sarge with the Speakup
>>>> curnal Version 2.6. I downloaded festival from debian using apt-get
>>>> to download and install the package but it doesn't want to talk. My
>>>> sound is working because I can play a CD from the gnome desktop. I
>>>> also purchased a copy of Dectalk rt. I have unpacked the file but I
>>>> can't run the installer. Is there a spesific directory I need to
>>>> unpack the files into in order to get the installer to
>>>
>>>When I ordered Dectalk software, I received an email message with
>>>instructions for installing it. You should provide details as to how
>>>you went about trying to install the software and exactly what went
>>>wrong including the text of any error messages you got.
>>>
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