Beginner Questions

[Gregory Nowak]

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You've made a good choice by going with slackware. If you have any of
the supported synthesizers as listed at www.linux-speakup.org, you
could simply add

speakup_synth=xxx

to your lilo append line, where xxx is the speakup designation for
your speech synth, so you don't need to be forced to access a
gnu/linux system remotely anymore. In fact, if you have any of the
supported hardware synths, you can have speech from the get go during
your entire installation. When the cd-rom boots, just type at the boot
prompt:

speakup.s speakup_synth=xxx

, and your synth should start speaking away everything on
screen. Note that softsynth cannot be used for getting speech during
the install, and you can't add it to your lilo append line as
described above, until you install flite, speech dispatcher, and
speechdup as described below. Again, replace xxx as appropriate. 

As for using a softsynth, I have not done  this myself yet, however,
here's what I know. The softsynth device is not a synth itself, but is
rather an interface that a softsynth would use to communicate with
speakup. From what I know, you need to get the flite software synth
installed, and you also need speech dispatcher, and speechdup from
http://www.freebsoft.org. Speech dispatcher, flite, and speechdup
should have no problem running on the configurations your system admin
mentions. As for the doubletalk pci, this is not supported by speakup
yet. Hth, and I hope someone else will chime in with whatever I left
out.

Greg

P.S. Have a look at the 2 speakup docs in the root directory of the
first slackware cd.


On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:51:56AM -0600, Lorne Webber wrote:

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