Beginner Questions

[Alex Snow]

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Hi.

To configure speakup for software speech, you will need three 
packages:
1. speech-dispatcher from http://www.freebsoft.org. this is an 
interface to several speach synths under linux.
2. speechd-up http://www.freebsoft.org. this is the interface between 
speech-dispatcher and speakup. 
3. flite http://www.cmuflite.org. this is a software speech package 
for linux.

so once you get all those packages and install them, compile speakup 
with sftsyn as a module. this can be done durning kernel 
configuration. then create the softsynth device by doing mknod 
/dev/softsynth c 10 26.
once the kernel has been recompiled with sftsyn as a module, load it, 
run speech-dispatcher then speechd_up. that should work.

- From my experience you are always better off with a hardware synth. 
they are usually more responsive and you get speech earlier in the 
booting process.
On 
Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:51:56AM -0600, Lorne Webber wrote:
> Hello Folks:
> This is the first time posting to this group so I'm not sure if this is a
> little out of scope, but I was hoping somebody out there could give some
> suggestions
> for the following situation:
> I'm a totally blind second year student in the department of computer
> science at the University of Alberta, and for the rest of my degree, most of
> my courses
> involve me using Linux.
> I'm working with the system admin for the department of computing science to
> get Linux up and working with speak up.
> Since the rest of the students will be working in the slackware environment
> we decided to go the same route, which shouldn't pose any problems as speak
> up is supposed to work fine with slackware.
> We're first trying it out on a Dell box in the lab, and once we have that up
> and running, we're going to try and put it on my laptop, dual booting it
> with
> Windows using Lilo.
> The system admin is the one who's doing the nuts and bolts of this, as
> currently the only way I have of accessing the Linux systems there is by
> remote connecting
> to the Linux systems using an ssh client over windows.
> I was hoping you folks could have a look at the following email from the
> system admin, and give some ideas on the questions
> he poses.
> Again I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this sort of thing, if
> you could direct me to a more appropriate place please do.
> Thanks for your time.
> Lorne
> -----------
> Hello,
>    I am a long-in-tooth system administrator here in the Dept. of Computing
>  Science at the University of Alberta.
> We're trying to get a Dell GX270 working with
>  Slackware version 10 and Speak-up.  The Dell's processor is a P4 2.8GHz
>  Intel and it has 512 Mbytes of RAM and lots of disk space(>40 Gbytes).
>    My first problem is that I am "blind-technology" disabled, so I have been
>  learning on the fly.  I was hoping to use the onboard sound on the Dell as
> I
>  saw from the Speak-up web-site that there were two software synthesizers,
>  the TuxTalk software synthesizer and also (perhaps) the Speakup soft synth
>  device.  I've found out that I don't know what the softsynth device is nor
>  can I find any explanation of it(although that is my problem).  Could you
>  explain to me what the softsynth device is?
>    The Slackware kernel appears to be configured properly as when the
> softsynth
>  device is set at bootup I see in /proc/speakup/synth_name that the proper
>  thing (sftsyn) has been set and I can set the volume and other things just
>  fine.
>    Problem number two is: I need two examples of system configurations that
>  work.  One for a workstation and one for a laptop.  The bases of the
> problem
>  is: is it better to work with a hardware synthesizer with either system or
>  will a software synthesizer like TuxTalk do the trick?  I'm looking for a
>  statement like:
>  "a workstation P4 based system with 512 Mbytes of RAM, a SoundBlaster
>   compatible sound card and TuxTalk on Slackware 10 works"
>  or "a laptop with a P4 and 256 Mbytes of RAM, Intel built-in sound and
>  Tuxtalk will work just fine"
>  or "its best for a workstation to go with a P4 based system, 512 Mbytes of
>  RAM and a Doubletalk PCI card".
>    Thank you for your time and consideration.
>  - Rod
> 
> 
> 
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