[Xastir] Festival & Speech

[Robbie, wa9inf]

Thanks Duffy,

That clears that up, so what do I use Festival and Xastir with? As you 
know, I am just getting my feet wet here... I must have misread the 
instructions, so back to the reading...

Robbie

Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:

> The audio alerts and speech with festival are two different items. One 
> has nothing to do with the other.  I have sounds working fine also. 
> Festival is not required to play the sounds.
>
> Duffy
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> Robbie, wa9inf wrote:
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>> Interesting. The wav files I downloaded this afternoon and put them 
>> in the sounds folder. Started working without starting Festival. I 
>> did get an error, unable to open Festival socket.. Worked anyway..
>>
>> I then shut Xastir and festival down, rebooted the computer and this 
>> time started festival first then Xastir, got the same error and it 
>> still played the "clear" sounding wav files??? I did the shutdown, 
>> reboot thingy, and ran Xastir witout Festival, it stills speaks nice 
>> clear perfect English..
>>
>> What did I do right?  Xastir 1.8.3 and Fedora Core 5 Pentium II 300 mghz
>>
>> Robbie
>>
>> Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote:
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>>>
>>>> Yea, if it's a true SB16 and not a clone card from somebody else,
>>>> you've probably got real hardware there.  One of the more compatible
>>>> cards you can get.
>>>>   
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>>>
>>> What are you running Xastir on?  Any emulation happening?  I know
>>> you mentioned VMWare before, so just wondering if you're trying to
>>> run Festival on Linux under VMWare or something like that.
>>>
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