Speakup Sans Speech

[Janina Sajka]

Duh, uh!

Sometimes I feel pretty dumb.


On 23 Mar 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:

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> If you give the string "none" instead of a synth the kernel will turn
> speakup off and not probe for a synth.
>
I confess I didn't do that. Maybe because I had experienced these later
versions of speakup continuing to boot even if my synth was off, I never
thought to actually specify "speakup_synth=none." Like I say, sometimes I
feel dumb! <grin>

I post this in the interest of full disclosure. I would test this, but I
simply overwrote the kernel I had before, so can't without compiling
again. I would assume, though, that this was my ignorance, and not the
fault of the speakup code. So, please forget what I wrote yesterday, and
please pardon the noise.

If there's anything that would have cleared this up for me, it might be
the way the prompt comes up in the .config. I admit that the way it is
now,

Enter the four to six character synth string from above or none.

is grammatical. I have, however, seen much poor grammar in technical
documents, so I was simply not certain that this prompt meant that I was
actually to type 'none' as opposed to entering nothing at all and pressing
enter on an empty field. That's why I posted my question yesterday. I'm
glad I did, of course, because I resolved my problem and I learned
something I should have known. However, it might have been clearer to me
with one additional word in the prompt as follows:

Enter the four to six character synth string from above or enter none.

Just a small suggestion.