Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-22 Thread juan rafael fernández
2006/12/22, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> cat text_utf8.txt | spd-say -l es -e This is right, Speech Dispatcher assumes UTF-8 input. "Assumes = only works with" or "assumes = defaults to"? Could a parameter be adde

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-22 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> cat text_utf8.txt | spd-say -l es -e This is right, Speech Dispatcher assumes UTF-8 input. Regards, Milan Zamazal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-22 Thread juan rafael fernández
2006/12/22, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> iso8859-1 input doesn't work (it stops at the accents and jrf> starts spelling). UTF-8 input works. And I don't find a way to jrf> state the encoding of a text. Is it

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-22 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> iso8859-1 input doesn't work (it stops at the accents and jrf> starts spelling). UTF-8 input works. And I don't find a way to jrf> state the encoding of a text. Is it a feature or a bug? Input to what exactly? Rega

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-22 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> Festival admits a language parameter, jrf> `--language LANG' jrf> Set the default language to LANG. Currently LANG may jrf> be one of `english', `spanish' or `welsh' (depending jrf>

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-22 Thread juan rafael fernández
2006/12/22, juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (of course it'll test it myself) Tested. At last "-l es" works! Two observations: iso8859-1 input doesn't work (it stops at the accents and starts spelling). UTF-8 input works. And I don't find a way to state the encoding of a text. Is it

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-22 Thread juan rafael fernández
2006/12/21, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> use the aoss wrapper. Install the alsa-oss package - Remove the >> oss emulation kernel modules in order to prevent OSS applications >> hijacking your sound device. jrf> From the point of view of an end-user this is jrf> con

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-21 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> 2006/12/21, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> - Tell all applications to use ALSA instead of OSS. jrf> I tell them, but some of them won't listen :-) Has a list of jrf> these applications been considered? Fo

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA (was: [Kenny Hitt] Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?)

2006-12-21 Thread juan rafael fernández
2006/12/21, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - Tell all applications to use ALSA instead of OSS. I tell them, but some of them won't listen :-) Has a list of these applications been considered? For instance in the field I work, education, audacity is considered "the audio editor". Could au

Festival and OSS/ALSA (was: [Kenny Hitt] Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?)

2006-12-21 Thread Milan Zamazal
Unfortunately, good and cheap sound cards are not commonly available today. So most Linux users have to base their sound output on ALSA dmix. Here is how to do it on a Debian GNU/Linux system: - Tell all applications to use ALSA instead of OSS. - If it is not possible (as with Festival that can