Hi thanks for the help. I made your changes but when i do sbl restart it seg faults. I also can not find the core file. Is there perhaps a config file already made for an accent SA or a dectalk express I have both of these hardware synths. thanks rob -----Original Message----- From: Christian Schoepplein [mailto:schoeppi@suse.de] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 11:07 AM To: suse-blinux@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-blinux] mbrola or other tts Hi Rob! On Sam, Dez 15, 2001 at 10:17:59 -0500, Robert Lumley wrote:
Hi, i just finished installing suse and so far all looks great. How ever i'm a very slow braille reader and want some speech output. I downloaded the rpm for mbrolla from the suse site but can't fi8ugre out how to get
sbl
to use it.
Any ideas or comment would be very helpful.
Oh sorry, there is only a german manual for installation availabel at
the moment :-(. But I can try to explaine the installation in english ;-).
first of all make sure, that you have downloaded all the stuff you need
from the SuSe-ftp-server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/blinux/mbrola
You should have this files:
mbrola4sbl-1.0-0.i386.rpm
en1-male.tgz
Now install the rpm-file with the following command, after you loged in
as root:
rpm -i mbrola4sbl-1.0-0.i386.rpm
Now uncompress the speechdatabase:
tar xvzf en1-male.tgz
Enter the new created directory en1 with
cd en1
and copy the file en1 into the directory for speechdatabases:
cp en1 /usr/lib/mbrola/voices
Now you have to tell suse-blinux, witch speechdatabase to use. To do this,
open the mbrola in the spk-directory. For example:
joe /usr/lib/suse-blinux/spk/mbrola
Set the vallue for language1 to en1:
language1=en1
Safe and close the mbrola-file an open /etc/suse-blinux.conf, to activate
the softspeech:
joe /etc/suse-blinux.conf
and set the follwoing variables:
spkname=mbrola
spkport=//
If you don't have a brailledvice connectect, set also brname to ht40:
brlname=ht40
Now you should be able to use suse-blinux with mbrola. You can use the
speechfunctions with your brailledisplay. To use the normal keyboard for
speechfunctions, you have to patch the kernel and the whole thing only
works with kernel 2.2.x...
Just restart suse-blinux and tell me, if mbrola is speeking :-):
sbl restart
If you have any problems, just ask, we try to help you ;-).
Best regards and nice weekend,
Schoeppi
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SuSE-Blinux Support
Christian Schöpplein