[Hudlug] [Fwd: Re: setting up dectalk]

[Ben Fowler]

On 08/08/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I have just recieved the following message about setting up the Dectalk
> synthesiser.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Thomas Ward <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
> Hi, Michael.
> After extracting the Dectalk runtime files cd to the Dectalk directory
> and do a
> ./install
> which will ask you for your product ID. Also you need to edit the *.sh
> files to make sure everything is going to /usr in Ubuntu.
> As for making Orca recognize Dectalk go to the Gnome ftp site and
> download the source for gnome-speech, and compile it.
> As for the UK Dectalk as you have bought the US version that is the
> only Dectalk you will get. For multilingual Dectalk you need to buy the
> Multilingual version. Fonix can help you find out which version you
> would need for UK English.

Thanks, Michael.

We put it in '/usr/local' . Does this mean that you want someone to
re-run the installer  using '/usr' and not /'usr/local'

Do you feel ready to install gnome-speech from source? I would be
pleased to do this.

I got the impression that Orca was working well for you. Are you in
fact having problems, and if so, what would like us to do next?

Ben