Hi, I copied these instructions from the website. Is this it? Just run these commands and DecTalk will appear in speech dispatcher? Thanks for any help. apt-get install build-essential libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libgtk2.0-dev unzip git
# Run all these commands in the /src directory... # Generates configure files autoreconf -si # Executes configure files ./configure # Builds DECtalk with ALL cores (remove -j for single core) make -j > On Feb 21, 2023, at 10:59 PM, Linux for blind general discussion > <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > > I'm happy to be in the fediverse right now. Looking through my timeline, I > just found a link to a Github repository that has DECTalk source code, > apparently released by some of the original DECTalk developers. > > https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk > > The LICENSE file still has scary words like "proprietary" and "confidential" > and "all rights reserved," but the source builds and works. I have it working > in speech-dispatcher with Orca as I write this. > > > Note that this is the DECTalk software version 4.x, the one that sounds just > like the DECTalk Express from the 1990's, so anyone who needs hardware speech > should feel right at home with this. No, this is not the 5.x DECTalk that > really sounds like crap. Have fun and enjoy, and I do hope they fix this > license soon. It would be good to have another truly free speech synthesizer > to play with, and this is definitely a huge step in that direction. > > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
