Category: Geeks r Us
I was unable to get the ISO to work for Vinux, so I got myself the Wubi installer for Ubuntu 8.04. It seems like my USB headset is supported, since most sounds seem to play through it, however, I can't get Orca to use that headset for sound output. I have everything in Sound Preferences set to use the only USB audio device there is on my system, but still Orca doesn't want to output through it. What have I missed? Is there something I need to add to Orca's startup parameters, and if so, where do I do it? Somewhere in /etc/init.d/something?
I think your problem has something to do with the way Espeak was built in Ubuntu. Have you tried other synths, like Festival? I noticed this problem, as well, and have yet to find a fix. If I'm right re: Espeak and port-audio, the fix would be to rebuild Espeak from sources, but I don't know what compile-time parameters to change or what libraries to build against.
I haven't tried anything else because I'm still quite new to the Ubuntu world, and I don't even know where to get Festival. Could I get it with:
% sudo apt-get festival
at the terminal? Then, I'm sure I'd have to
% su root
then
% cd /path/to/festival/root/dir
% ./configure
% make
% make install
or something like that.
Tyler, I think you will have to buy Festivle, from what I remember, its not free, but cheap, like $20 I believe.
Seems like I might be able to get it for free, at least in Ubuntu with apt-get install. What other Linux synths are out there that might resolve the problem with port-audio and that I won't have to build a huge number of dependencies to get working? Also, does apt-get take care of dependencies, building, etc?