I successfully managed to get emacspeak and festival, and evn an emacs interface going on a sunsparc 2--3 years ago... so don't remember details, but here goes: (and i not root during installation)...
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know I can run festival from within emacs. What I want to know is if > emacspeak can use the festival speech synthesis engine for its general > audio feedback. From the package description of emacspeak it appears > that emacspeak can only be used with hardware-based solutions. yeah, appeared that way to me too... but i think all 'hardware'-type terms actually turned out to be 'softwares'... i think, and i am very fuzzy on the names, that i had to install a lot of differnet softwared----mbrola, vivavoice (sp?), etc. etc., some semantic and dictionary packages before i could even think of installing emacspeak. i think some of these packages are non-Free. DG <http://www.glue.umd.edu/~deego/> -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]