speech-dispatcher

[ameer armaly]

One thing:
you should probably do:
echo none >/proc/speakup/synth_name
Whenver I tried to load the sftsyn module, it totally screwed my kernel
with 2.4/2.6, but if you do it this way it works fine.


On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Stephen Clower wrote:

> 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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