speech-dispatcher

[Stephen Clower]

Hello Jacob,
  Although horrendous, this command worked so I know Speech-Dispatcher is running.


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On 4/28/2004 at 6:54 PM Jacob Schmude wrote:

>Hi
>Interesting. Does your sound card work for other things? Can you play a
>sound file through it? The default module that will be used is flite,
>which usually always works. Does speech dispatcher work? Try this:
>spd-say "Hello, this is a test"
>after speech dispatcher is started. If this works, we know speech
>dispatcher is set up properly. NOte that older versions of speech
>dispatcher simply called the command "say".
>Something else I've noticed occasionally: If you're using a hardware synth
>with speakup and try to switch to softsynth, it can behave strangely,
>often the software synthesizer device isn't recognized when this happens.
>Best thing to do in this case is remove all speakup modules and then do a
>modprobe speakup_sftsyn--this ensures that the softsynth driver is the
>only one loaded at the time.
>HTH
>On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Stephen Clower wrote:
>
>> Hi Jacob,
>>   For now, I'm just using the defaults specified in the .conf file. If I
>can get it working, then I'll try and use the Dectalk RT.
>
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