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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:48:46 +0200
From:      Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
To:        gerard@seibercom.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE &  Text to Speech
Message-ID:  <200607042348.46469.danny@ricin.com>
In-Reply-To: <200607041112.25739.gerard@seibercom.net>
References:  <200607041112.25739.gerard@seibercom.net>

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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@.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.

HTH,

Dan



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