gnopernicus problems

[Will H. Backman]

Dimitri Mallis wrote:
> hi im having problems getting text to speech working in gnome
> my sound card works 100%, i can listen to mp3's
>
> when i run gnopernicus, a scratch noice comes from the speakers
> any thoughts? thanks
>
> dimitri at dimitri-desktop :~$ gnopernicus
> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
>
> **********************
> * SCREEN READER CORE *
> **********************
>
> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
>
> (srcore:4895): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Unable to find parameter
>
> (srcore:4895): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Unable to find parameter
>
> (srcore:4895): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Unable to find parameter
>
> (srcore:4895): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Unable to find parameter
>
> (srcore:4895): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Unable to find parameter
>
> (srcore:4895): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Unable to find parameter
> gnopernicus-Message: speech initialization succeded
>
> (srcore:4895): gnopernicus-WARNING **: unknown "text:line" bouds type
>
You could test the festival speech engine first.  Go to the terminal, 
and have it read a text file to you.
For example,

festival --tts file.txt