Re: FYI: Debian, Knoppix/Oralux and Emacspeak
I am a little bit confused towards what your actual question is.
You seem to have problems getting eflite to work with emacspeak.
However, as far as I could see, you did not include anything which
might help us with figuring out what your actual problem is.
Could you at least try and give a concret problem description? What did
you exactly do and what was the result?
Maybe people can help you then. Of course, it would even be better if
you could file a proper bug report against the package which does not
work correctly for you, in this case most likely eflite.
Last time I verified it, after installing eflite and emacspeak,
emacspeakconfig does offer eflite as a speech server, and if choosen, works
correctly. Note that eflite is compile for OSS support, and would might
need OSS emulation when using ALSA. I do not use ALSA yet, so
I do not have any more details about this.
jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) writes:
> I am a sighted person, but I have some visually impaired friends, so
> in free time I experiment with some software for blinds. For your
> information I forward my posting to emacspeak list: emacspeak/eflite
> installed from Debian unstable package is mute on my computer.
>
> Do you have any suggestions to try?
>
> Regards
>
> Janusz
>
> On 05 Aug 2003 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 Kalyan Mukherjea <kalyanm@cal.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> > This isn't even a "newbie query"; rather a "wannabie query"!
>> >
>> > I am a legally blind person who is getting a little bit frustrated about
>> > ever getting Emacspeak working on my Linux PC!
>>
>> Have a look at Oralux:
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 Gilles Casse <gcasse@oralux.org> wrote:
>>
>> > We are happy to announce the start of the Oralux project.
>> >
>> > Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for the blind or visually impaired people.
>> > It eases a fast access to GNU/Linux.
>> >
>> > This distribution doesn't require any installation since it runs from the CD.
>> > The audio desktop replaces the graphical user interface for the sighted
>> > people.
>> >
>> > Special thanks to T. V. Raman for Emacspeak and Klaus Knopper for KNOPPIX.
>> > Thanks too to people working on accessible Text To Speech softwares : free or
>> > low cost softwares.
>> > Oralux may start thanks to their work.
>> >
>> > For more details : http://oralux.org
>> > We are looking for free hosters for the iso image (700 MB)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > In Debian, as of April 2003, to install Emacspeak using the eflite
>> > software text-to-speech synthesizer, type the following in a
>> > shell:
>> >
>> > apt-get install emacs21 emacs21-el emacspeak eflite festival
>> >
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > After running `apt-get', you should be able to run Emacspeak by
>> > typing
>> >
>> > emacspeak
>> >
>> > in a shell.
>>
>> Unfortunately, not always it is so simple. For example, it does not
>> work for me (Knoppix-based Debian unstable).
>>
>> Do you use OSS or ALSA?
>>
>> Knoppix by default uses OSS. To have sound in Oralux I have to boot it
>> with "alsa" cheatcode.
>>
>> Best regards to all of you
>>
>> Janusz
>>
>> --
>> ,
>> dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
>> Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
>> jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl, jsbien@uw.edu.pl
>> http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
>> http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
>
> --
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> dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
> Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
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> http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
> http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
>
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