creating /dev/softsynth

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi,

	I was having this problem too, but Gene Collins pointed out the order in which you need to start things:

1) As you have now, festival and speech-dispatcher have to be running (as daemons).
2) do: "echo >/proc/speakup/synth_name sftsyn"
	This doesn't start talking yet, but loads the 'speakup_sftsyn' module and tells speakup which synthesizer it's going to use.
3) now, just do: "speechd_up" as root
	You should now hear speakup talking through your computer's audio system.

	hth,

	--terry
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:47:19PM +0200, Willem van der Walt<willem at top.health.gov.za> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have flite compiled and speech-dispatcher doing its test and talking.
> I seem to have speechd_up compiled and installed correctly, but after 
> having created
> /dev/softsynth with major 10 and minor first 26 and then after deleting 
> the first one, 36,
> After starting speechd_up -L/var/log/speech.log
> I get this:
> [Tue Aug 10 13:33:48 2004] speechd: Speechd-speakup starts!
> [Tue Aug 10 13:33:48 2004] speechd: ERROR!
> Unable to open soft synth device (/dev/softsynth)
> I have chmod 777 /dev/softsynth although it belongs to root and i was 
> running everything as root.
> What am i doing wrong here?
> TIA
> Willem
> 
> 
> 
> 
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