Speakup modified Sarge & softsynth

Kenny Hitt kenny at hittsjunk.net
Sun Feb 20 15:23:23 EST 2005


No,  You need a hardware synth.
Because software speech in speakup requires speech-dispatcher and
speechd-up, you need an installed system to use it.  Speech-dispatcher
is a Debian package, but you will need to build speechd-up from CVS
source.

          Kenny

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 03:10:59PM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> Is it possible to boot the Speakup modified Debian Sarge installer with softsynth
> support?  I tried to boot using
> 
> speakup speakup_synth=softsynth
> 
> but the kernel hangs right after it is uncompressed and gives no error message.
> It says it is booting the kernel, but nothing ever happens.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lorenzo
> 
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