Speakup Soft Speech--What's the status?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Steve,
I think Janina was asking about switching among several kinds of
software synths, such as flite to dectalk, dectalk to cepstral,
etc. Unless I misread her. Which I have been known to do,
actually.

Chuck


On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Yes, you can actually switch synthesizers on the fly including
> software; the name of the soft synth is sftsyn.  I built a script I
> use which can switch synths on the fly.  It needs a bit more
> refinement but works for me in its present state.  It works great on
> my Hitachi laptop but gives me a problem on my desktop at home.  For
> some reason, I get an error with Speechd-up and I have to manually
> killall speechd_up and then run it again from the colsole and then it
> talks.  I run this script from /etc/rc.d in Slackware with the
> following command syntax:
> /etc/rc.d/rc.speakup start sftsyn
> The second parameter can be any of the supported synths for speakup as
> long as your kernel supports it and you have that model, of course:).
> I will attach it inline below.

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