From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 5 16:58:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEF216A4DD for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B762A43D49 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:58:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k65GwUHm061224; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gerard@seibercom.net Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:58:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200607041112.25739.gerard@seibercom.net> <200607042348.46469.danny@ricin.com> <200607041803.29572.gerard@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <200607041803.29572.gerard@seibercom.net> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607051258.08179.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.3, clamav-milter version 0.88.3 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: KDE & Text to Speech X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:58:33 -0000 On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:03, Gerard Seibert wrote: > 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@.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. Also make sure you are setting the correct audio method. My ~/.festivalrc looks like this: (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'freebsd16audio) (voice_ked_diphone) Change the voice to one you have installed and want to use as the default. JN