software speech installation

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Well, I have my software speech working with flite. I thought it
might be of interest to someone to know what I had to do to make
it happen automatically.

First, I compiled my kernel with speakup_sftsyn selected as a
module, but left my earlier selection, speakup_ltlk, compiled
into the kernel.

Next, I placed these lines in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

# start the software speech daemons
/usr/local/bin/speech-dispatcher
/sbin/modprobe speakup_sftsyn
sleep 1
/usr/local/bin/speechd_up

The key to making these statements work within the rc.local file
was the insertion of the one second pause before the invocation
of speechd_up. Don't ask me why. Without that pause I needed to
log into root without speech and run speechd_up at the prompt.
With the pause present, the software speech comes up
automatically.

Jacob, or someone else who has made dectalk work with dispatcher,
would you please share your "AddModule" statement from the
speech-dispatcher config file? I made some intelligent guesses
which turned out not to be so intelligent, and could use a clue
or two here. This flite is driving me batty, but it works.


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