Getting softsyn to work

[Gene Collins]

Hi.  Try reading the Speakup User's Guide from the Speakup site at
http://linux-speakup.org.   It's the third link down on the page.

Gene

>Trying to get text to speech working properly. I downloaded and
>installed kernel-2.4.27-speakup using apt-get. As a result,
>grep -i speakup /boot/config-2.4.27-speakup
>shows this:
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_ACNTSA=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_ACNTPC=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_APOLLO=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_AUDPTR=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_BNS=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DECTLK=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DECEXT=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DECPC=3Dm
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DTLK=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_KEYPC=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_LTLK=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SFTSYN=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SPKOUT=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_TXPRT=3Dy
>CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DEFAULT=3D"none"
>
>and menu.lst in /boot/grub says:
>...
>title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-speakup
>root            (hd0,0)
>kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-speakup root=3D/dev/hda1 ro
>initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-speakup
>savedefault
>boot
>...
>
>And I cannot get sftsyn to work here. /proc/speakup/synth_name says
>none and if I try to do
>echo sftsyn > /proc/speakup/synth_name
>it says speakup_sftsyn module is loaded but if I do
>cat /proc/speakup/synth_name
>it still says none.
>
>spd-say works fine. speech-dispatcher and speechd_up are installed.
>Since sftsyn is compiled right into the kernel as the config file
>suggests, how might I go about getting my system to use sftsyn so I
>can get all data written to the console read off through the speakers?
>According to the config file, it seems to want to use "none". Do I
>have to download the kernel source and build from scratch?
>--=20
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