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October 27, 2005
Festival will not work with gnome-speech
Festival bundled with ubuntu 5.10 doesn't work.
Here's the workaround from Orca's QUICKSTART.
test-speech will often fail when you attempt to use the festival
speech synthesis engine:
% /usr/bin/test-speech
1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3
Select a server: 1
Attempting to activate OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3.
Server could not be initialized.
You can fix this by making sure "localhost" is listed before
"localhost.localdomain" in the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts.
Or, you can also follow an alternative route described at:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2005-February/msg00017.html
Anyway, ubuntu 5.10 is the best linux desktop I've ever used.
The installation is very smooth. (too smooth to choose a static IP rather than DHCP)
And it learned a lot from Mac OS X.
e.g. The root user doesn't have a password by default.
It uses debian-like packaging. I really enjoyed it.
And it bundled with bleeding edge products such as GNOME 2.12.1, Firefox 1.0.7.
It even installed BitTorrent by default.
I'll try to do my work on it instead of Fedora Core 4.
Keep an eye on my blog.
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Posted by ginn at October 27, 2005 5:31 PM
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