KDE & Text to Speech

[Gerard Seibert]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:48, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 17:12, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > System Info:
> > FreeBSD seibercom.net 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 13
> > 19:46:07 EDT 2006     root at .seibercom.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SEIBERCOM 
> > i386
> >
> > I am not sure if this is the proper forum for this question or not, but I
> > might as well start here.
> >
> > I am trying to get the KDE text to speech to work. I installed the
> > 'festival' port and the 'festvox-aec' port. Everything seems to be OK,
> > but no sound is emitted. The sound works fine on everything else. There
> > are no error messages displayed so I do not know where to look to get
> > this working.
>
> You probably need to install "voices", these are ports that start with
> festvox-* and festlex-*. I've only played with it to the extend I had it
> read slashdot and such, nothing really serious, but I also found that it
> did nothing until I installed some synthesized voices.

I installed one from the 'festvox-*' ports originally.. I will investigate 
the 'festlex-*' offerings now.

-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net

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