Hi Beth: Yech. Getting speech going can be a pain in the neck for many reasons. Have you tried the troubleshooting notes at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech?
In addition, where did you install DECtalk? Did you modify locations.sh to point it to /usr instead of /usr/local? If not, you might try doing that. Hope this helps, Will Beth Hatch wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm attempting to compile the Fonix Dectalk 4.6 into the Gnome speech > 0.4.9 and when I do this, all appears to go well. However, whenever I > try to choose the Dectalk from Orca version 2.17.91 or by testing it > with the test-speech command for Gnome speech, there's no output from > Dectalk. To be more precise, Orca doesn't even show Dectalk as a choice > in its preferences/speech combo box, and test-speech gives me this > strange error message about "an unknown failure has occurred, unable to > start child process." I've installed the Dectalk driver three times > now, and compiled Gnome-speech each time thereafter. Gnome-speech > appears to see the Dectalk because it says it is making the dectalk > driver, and it says yes that the driver is made, just as it does for > Festival, which works fine with Orca and th test-speech module. > > I followed the Gnome-speech compiler instructions from the Orca Wiki > and later from the Beyond Linux from Scratch web site. If anyone has > any suggestions to help me get this up and running, it would be most > appreciated. Please feel free to send private email if you wish. > > Thanks, > > Beth > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
