speakup w/ software synth

[Igor Gueths]

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You need to obtain Speech-dispatcher, and speechd_up. Both can be obtained at www.freebsoft.org. You're also going to need either Flite or Festival. If you want better voices than are provided 
by Festival/Flite, your only option then is to pay $50 for the software Dectalk as sold by Fonix. You're also going to have to create a device called softsynth in /dev. I forget the exact 
major number that device uses, check the Speechd_up README for that. For reference purposes, Speechd-dispatcher is the speech server that communicates to the synthesizer i.e., Flite. 
Speechd_up is the client that connects to Speech-dispatcher, and captures output from sftsyn, which in turn gets its input from the console. I believe that's how the chain so to speak goes 
anyway. People have been having various amounts of luck with this software combination, some say it works...Others say that it doesn't work for whatever reason...I have yet to try it myself. 
Good luck!
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:08:50AM -0700, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Okay!
> 
> I installed the Speakup Modified Fedora Core 2
> distribution and the system is running well. I used
> the graphical installation program and did not follow
> the step by step HowTo provided at the site because I
> intend to use a software synth of some kind and
> couldn't find specific instructions for that (synth
> keyword, etc.) So now my questions are:
> 
> How do I get speakup running using a software synth
> such as sftsyn?
> I've tried logging into a text console and doing:
> modprobe speakup_sftsyn
> but nothing happens. I notice that the modules show up
> when I do an lsmod but Speakup doesn't speak.
> I've also tried doing: speakup_synth=sftsyn But again
> nothing happens.
> 
> I think I've done all the obvious stuff like run
> alsaconf and made sure the audio outputs were up and
> not muted. (Gnopernicus seems to work fine as do all
> the GUI audio applications I use like Audacity)
> 
> Any guidance on how to get Speakup speaking would be
> greatly appreciated. If there is any documentation
> that would help I'd also love to know about it.
> Thanks so much.
> Stephen
> 
> 
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