getting festival, and flite working with orca under ubuntu 12?

[Boris Dušek]

Hello Hank,

10. 4. 2012 v 7:09, Hank Smith:

> Hello I installed flite, and festival speech synth, and uncommented the synths in my speech.conf file under /etc/speechdispatcher/speechd.conf
> how ever the 2 synths aren't showing up in the list.
> do I have to do anything else to get these to work with orca?

the festival debian/ubuntu package does not contain init script. To setup working festival with speech-dispatcher and orca, I would recommend you try the instructions in our Accessibility Guide, specifically the section on installing Festival on Ubuntu:
http://live.freebsoft.org/ubuntu-festival

Best regards,
Boris Dušek
BRAILCOM,o.p.s.
www.brailcom.org