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 -- SuSE-Blinux Support Christian Schöpplein <schoeppi@suse.de> Tel.: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480 www: http://www.blinux.suse.de