| Frequently Asked Questions | |
| Q: How do I configure Speech Dispatcher in user-mode? | |
| A: Run | |
| spd-conf | |
| and answer some basic questions | |
| Q: During the instalation, when running `make' and `make install', | |
| I get some strange message from libtool and the process crashes: | |
| ../../libtool: s%^.*/%%: is not a file or directory | |
| ../../libtool: -e: command not found | |
| ../../libtool: -e: command not found | |
| (repeating several times) | |
| A: Libtool uses `sed' as it's tool to modify text, but the new versions rely on | |
| the environment variable SED to contain the name of the command to call. | |
| This variable must be set when building programs using these versions of | |
| libtool. You can run make like that (if you have `sed' in your PATH): | |
| $ SED=sed make | |
| $ su root | |
| $ SED=sed make install | |
| or | |
| $ export SED=sed | |
| $ make | |
| $ su root | |
| $ make install | |
| Q: Flite has only a very crappy voice! | |
| A: Flite is only a simple light software synthesizer and it's voices are not of | |
| a very high quality. Festival can do much better and it also supports | |
| various languages. But if you are compiling Flite and Speech Dispatcher | |
| yourselves, there are still chances that you can improve the Flite voice | |
| considerably by using the 16-bit KAL voice instead of the (in the | |
| distribution tarball default) 8-bit voice. To be able to use the 16-bit | |
| voice, you have to compile Flite with a special flag, please consult it's | |
| documentation or ./configure --help. Then you should recompile Speech | |
| Dispatcher (no flag is necessary, it will be automatically installed with | |
| the better voice). | |
| If you are using Debian or any other package based distribution, the 16-bit | |
| voice should be installed by default and there is no need for you to care | |
| about it. | |
| Q: Festival doesn't speak. What can I do? | |
| A: Are you sure you have installed festival-freebsoft-utils 0.3 or higher as | |
| described in the file INSTALL? | |
| A: Are you sure you are not running into the famous 'server_access_list' | |
| problem? Please see the file INSTALL. | |
| Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Brailcom, o.p.s | |
| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under | |
| the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software | |
| Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | |
| version. | |
| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY | |
| WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A | |
| PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details (file | |
| COPYING in the root directory). | |
| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |