process for getting festival working with speech-dispatcher and speechd-up
Hi, As usual when I went to the debian wiki on accessibility there was
not a lot of documentation on how to get speachd-up and
speech-dispatcher working with other voice synthesizers like festival.
After spending around an hour trying to get it working I found
information in the README.DEBIAN file about the festival server being
disabled and after searching threw the apt-cache with search I found the
festival server package for speech-dispatcher. Again there is no
//etc/default/festival file to edit so I created my own and rebooted the
system. I had already uncommented all of the lines about festival and
set language to en as talked about in the README file. Again still
espeak was running after I made sure espeakup was purged from the
system. What would it take for someone to write the proper documents on
how to get either festival and pico running and how to switch between
synthesizers on a system level? Using google has not brought me much
luck and I think this information should be on the accessibility wiki
for users like myself who wish to use other voice synthesizers such as
festival and yes I did install the program before changing the
configuration values. Nick Gawronski
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