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    [lubuntu] Inactivity suspend asks for password

    I've got Lubuntu 16.04 on Dell Latitude E7470. I configured suspend while closing the lid and it works perfectly. It also works from logout/suspend menu -- the laptop suspends correctly and wakes up...
  2. Re: HOWTO: Make festival TTS use better voices (MBROLA / CMU / HTS)

    This post has nothing to do with festival. However, I'm using this thread to ask the following question: is anybody interested in trying out a virtual machine with Lubuntu and a preinstalled speech...
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    [SOLVED] Syndaemon dies after resume

    I have syndaemon -i 1 -d among startup programs to disable touchpad when I type.

    However, after hibernate / resume it is either gone or not doing the job. I have to kill / restart it every time...
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    Re: VirtualBox not able to run anything

    confirmed. It worked for me, too.
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    [SOLVED] Pidgin and MS Lync 365

    Hi,

    I am placing it here because it took me some time to make it work.

    Here's how to make Pidgin talk to Lync 365 users:

    1. Install pidgin-sipe

    sudo apt-get install pidgin-sipe
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    Re: High quality text to speech GUI

    we're speaking about GUI here, but i thought i could paste a command line for producing decent mp3 files with sapilektor.

    this is basically what i use:

    cat "text.txt" | tr "–" "," |...
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    Re: High quality text to speech GUI

    Hi, jacquin.t,

    please edit the

    /usr/bin/install_sapi_server

    and change the display=:20 to display=:0

    (you will need sudo for this)
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    Re: High quality text to speech GUI

    Summarizing: to be able to use new Ivona voices, we need wine version >= 1.7.18

    To install it we need to add the repo:



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
    sudo apt-get update...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 12.04 works great. Should I upgrade to 14.04?

    "if it works, don't touch it".
    that's my motto. :)

    i've been using linux since 1998 and, to tell you the truth, i don't like playing with my system anymore, so i only update when i need a...
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    [server] Re: Adding a user to the sudoers list

    if you can't run "sudo visudo", try add your username to the "admin" group.

    if you still can't run it because the file is empty, try to do "su -" and then edit the /etc/sudoers file with your...
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    [SOLVED] Disabling touchpad when mouse plugged in

    Hi there,
    I'd like to share a working solution.

    I have read about it and I found some solutions based on udev rules but some people complain that this doesn't work for them. It seems it is...
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    Re: High quality text to speech GUI

    "At last: NeoSpeech Voice (Bridget) installed smoothly and works smoothly."

    Could you add some details? I could not find any place to download it...
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    Re: High quality text to speech GUI

    Update: I got some information that new versions of voices seem not to work with sapi4wine.

    If your SAPI server crashes during installation after symlinking some voices to installation folders,...
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    Re: High quality text to speech GUI

    December 2013:
    It seems there are problems with some (all?) new versions of Ivona voices. Adding such a voice to the ivona_voices directory will cause the SAPI server to stop. This means that all...
  15. Re: Dial up (DUN) via bluetooth and Network Manager.

    I have corrected the mistake in my original post (network-manager-versionnumber). Thanks.

    The whole story doesn't look like a bug to me. Somebody playing with the source code obviously wanted...
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    High quality text to speech GUI

    You can play with a multi-language* text reader which uses SAPI to produce high quality speech. The name is sbreader. The program reads the file aloud with good quality voices while highlighting...
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    Re: High quality text to speech

    I am starting a new thread on High quality text to speech GUI.
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2173822&p=12785866#post12785866
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    [SOLVED] Re: software for text to speech

    Check here:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2111436&p=12488983#post12488983

    And here's a demo of your post, synthesized on my Mint (Ubuntu-based system)
    ...
  19. [all variants] Re: Gnome disk utility (palimpsest) - what happened?

    Then it's a tragedy.

    When I used Mandrake (before it became Mandriva) I got used to notorious spoiling some features in one release, while fixing others... And then spoiling the fixed ones and...
  20. [all variants] Re: Gnome disk utility (palimpsest) - what happened?

    I do hope you're just ironic.

    Why to make "disk utility" and then castrate it.

    If they need a tablet system, this piece of software should just not be installed by default. "Development" used...
  21. [all variants] Gnome disk utility (palimpsest) - what happened?

    Today I needed to repair an SD card which mounted "read only". I installed gnome-disk-utility from the repo and...

    It looks different (e.g. has a play / pause button for mounting / unmounting a...
  22. Dial up (DUN) via bluetooth and Network Manager.

    I am not sure if this problem is present on Ubuntu...
    Anyway, I remember struggling with DUN via bluetooth on some older Ubuntu versions. On 12.04 it worked (gnome bluetooth applet plus Network...
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    Re: High quality text to speech

    It is also possible to install SAPI server on wine and use a SAPI voice. Tested to work with Ivona (http://www.ivona.com/us/ ) and Acapela...
  24. Re: Remember EasyPeasy? Would you like it to live on?

    I switched to Mint because it keeps developing a fork of a good old Gnome2. Can anybody tell me how to install the EasyPeasy launcher on Mint? I would be more than happy.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Need to convert PDF to Audio MP3

    I also found some code that does the actual conversion but I don't use it as usually I convert ebooks to txt and to mp3, (not pdf, doc or odt). And and I do it from Callibre.
    Anyway, if someone...
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