Hi Krishna,
Before I started using Emacspeak +flite+ eflite I had for a little
while used festival as a "screen reader" with Emacs. The festival
package at that time had a rudimentary support for Emacs: if you
installed festival and the Emacs support, the menubar acquired a
new item `say' and one could click on this and choose say region
say page etc.
When I first read about Emacspeak I wasted some time looking for
IBM's ViaVoice and then asked Alan Black (the maintainer of
festival, flite etc) about using festival as a speech engine for
Emacspeak and he replied that he had asked one of his students to
work on this but the results were not satisfactory. He suggested
that I try to use Emacspeak with whatever tts is supported by the
author (TVR, that is) and settled on flite + eflite.
I agree that festival voices are probably a little better but I'd
have my Emacspeak running smoothly than a very beautiful voice which
cannot help me do my work.
Since you are a computer engineer (python & C) perhaps you should
learn Emacs-lisp study the code TVR has written and try to get a
Emacspeak server that uses festival up and running.
I know this is not an answer to your question, but probably there are
inherent difficulties in getting festival married to Emacspeak.
Cheers.
Kalyan
PS: Have you set up Emacspeak with flite and eflite or are you using
the Oralux Live CD?
krishnakant Mane writes:
>I did not find any answer to having festival
> configured with emacspeak.
> there have been some posts on this issue previously but I did not find
> any complete and comprehencive answer.
> I have found that the easiest setup of emacspeak is with flite and eflite.
> but I need festival not festival lite. I have been working with
> emacspeak and eflite for quite some time now and feel that a good
> synthesizer with good sound quality is the only important thing
> remaining.
> I have tried to get this solved from experts at our linux users group
> but none of them are blind and no one has the idea of emacspeak beyond
> the fact that they see it working on my desktop.
> so any one who has been successful configuring emacspeak with
> festival, please provide instructions.
> thanking all.
> Krishnakant.
>
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