Need help with Festival and Dectalk Rt

[Willem van der Walt]

Hello,
To test if festival works, give this command:
echo this is a test | festival --tts
It should speak.  The SayText command, I think, belongs to the dectalk rt.
You say that the install program of the dec is there, but it is not found. 
Try ./installer
note it is dot slash installer
The dot slash tells bash to look for the program to run in the current 
directory. If you do not give it, it will look in all the places specified 
by your path.
HTH
Willem


On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, David Jennette 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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