Re: [mh] flite

[Tim S. <tp...@ma...>]

On Tue, December 20, 2005 22:28, Dave Stenhouse said:
> I decided that my little linux box was just not working hard enough
> running my house, and I wanted it to talk to me as well.  I installed
> flite, and it works OK from a command line.  Like so:
>
> flite -t "Dave is a wonderful person and not too terribly geeky,
> considering."
> Here's the pertinent lines from mh.private.ini
> voice_text=flite
> voice_text_flite=/usr/bin/flite -t
>
>
> However, for some reason, when I ask MH to say something, I get the
> output in the log, and on the browser screen, but not from the speaker.
> I know it's something simple, but what?

Does it work outside of MH? Try that first. I foudn that on my Ubuntu
system, esd starts up and captures the soundcard. Make sure nothing else
is using your sound card. If you have esd or something similar running,
also install speech-dispatcher.

Tim