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- This is rsynth-2.0, compiled for NEXTSTEP as quad-FAT binary (NIHS).
-
- rsynth is a text to speech system produced by integrating various
- pieces of code and tables of data, which (hopefully) are all in
- the public domain.
-
- The bulk of the intergration was done by Nick Ing-Simmons
- (nik@tiuk.ti.com). The NEXTSTEP port was done by Ben Stuyts
- (ben@stuyts.nl).
-
- rsynth-2.0 needs to be linked against gdbm-1.7.3, the GNU dbm
- routines. The gdbm distribution is available from almost any ftp
- server in the GNU directory, rsynth's distribution site is
- ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/sources, the most recent
- version is rsynth-2.0.tar.gz, which was used for this binary.
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- To get an idea about rsynth, you should read README.NeXT and README.
-
- Copy say, dlookup and mkdictdb to a directory in your path, e.g.
- /usr/local/bin (you must be root to do this!) or ~/Unix/bin. You
- may want to thin the files with lipo or Thinner first.
-
- If you have Scott Hess' TickleServices, there's a nice service
- included in README.NeXT.
-
- If you've plenty of room on your disk, fetch one of the dictionaries
- mentioned in README and install as described there.
-
-
-
- COMPILATION:
-
- If you want to build rsynth-2.0 from the source for NEXTSTEP, there
- are a few important points:
-
- 1.) You have to grab the gdbm sources first (1.7.3 works), and
- install or at least compile it first. Should compile out of the
- box with "./configure" and "make". Install it with "make install"
- if you want (this is not necessary for compiling rsynth).
-
- 2.) Run configure in the rsynth directory. If you haven't installed
- gdbm in 1.), you should call configure with
- "--with-gdbm=YOUR-GDBM-SOURCE-DIRECTORY". Also, it _might_ be
- necessary to add "i386-next", "hppa-next" or "sparc-next", if
- configure complains about unknown host-type.
-
- 3.) Before 'make'ing, visit the Makefile and remove '-lm' from the
- LDLIBS line. This is not necessary for NEXTSTEP.
-
- 4.) Run 'make'. Run 'make check'.
-
- 5.) If all went ok, you could run 'make install' as root. Don't
- mind the error message about missing dicts.
-
- Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de)
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