From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert D. Crawford" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: software synthesiser for emacspeak Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:59:50 -0500 Message-ID: <87myw7sqah.fsf@comcast.net> References: <1188549152.542345.300220@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188574876 24802 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2007 15:41:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:41:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 31 17:41:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IR8cK-0005lT-6B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IR8cI-0002ou-Or for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:41:02 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:55:01 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vV8I6Yj7155rcLz11yHzgwJQ+vk= Original-Lines: 43 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.52.51.66 Original-X-Trace: sv3-zjlCKi5iBJ9KKXArOakjajK+xVWvQlN7odQkSauQMtvC+N7mO19OT3q11a866euRk70dbro5i2XGGpB!UyBDPQ9L9zWBehausmFYAonfcpK51njwtRo7AKmTNJqQiS8gL8ZRIGwpP5DcKnLj55mBUy5QwUEp!oS8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151505 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47028 Archived-At: Adams writes: > I'm trying to choose the software synthesiser for emacspeak. > I would like it to have the following features: > 1. Sound clear > 2. Easy to install and upgrade There is a lot of information on the emacspeak mailing list, the info documentation, and the directory hierarchy concerning the installation and set-up of the various speech servers. These are the first places I would look > I have the following synthesisers installed on my system: > 1. festival with mbrola support > 2. flite > 3. eflite 1 is not widely used, if at all. I have not seen anything on the list concerning festival in a very long time. flite is used by many and is supported via eflite. I am not sure how you were able to use eflite without emacspeak. Not saying it is not possible, I just don't understand how. > Festival sounds best for me, eflite the worst, flite is quite good. > Unfortunately I couldn't find the clear documentation on how to launch > them with emacspeak. If, after checking the emacspeak archive, and the other documentation mentioned above, you still have questions, post your questions to the emacspeak mailing list. You might want to subscribe to the list even when you find the answers as there is good information to be found there. You did not mention the distro you use. I am not sure how others set things up, but if you are working from debian and install emacspeak and eflite together it will ask you a few questions and set things up to work for you. rdc -- Robert D. Crawford rdc1x@comcast.net You will give someone a piece of your mind, which you can ill afford.