changing voice in speakup

[Sean McMahon]

Are you typing cat /proc/speakup/voice
If not, that may be your problem.  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EPYD Productions" <epyd2 at hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: changing voice in speakup


> hello sir
> i'm sorry you aare miss-construdding the title of tech as a know it all of
> some sorts. i am not. i am just a tech who  deals more with networking and
> hardware than with the speakup and things. i'm vary new to speakup and new
> to its vast array of options and ways to tweak it. i apologize if i can't
> make it much clearer but this is what the system tells me when i am logged
> in as root
>  when i type /proc/speakup/voice it tells me "permission denied".
>  when i view it in a vi session i do see the zero. what do i do within this
> file to change the "voice output of the doubletalk lite"? i'm coming to this
> list hunbbly sir, seeking assistance and i tell you the title tech doesn't
> always mean i have the answer to questions and sometimes i ask them my self.
> Blind Tech
> website: http://www.users.qwest.net/~drjann/epyd/
> contact info can be found on website
> email list: EPYD Radio-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
> EPYD the only place to be!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: changing voice in speakup
> 
> 
> | Hi.
> |
> | I'm confused.  You say "you can't access the file" and then access the
> | file in an editor.
> | I'm just a user, not a tech guy, but if you can look at the file in an
> | editor, then you can access it.
> |
> | I remember telling you the contents of /proc/speakup/voice was an int.
> | Last I heard, 0 is an int.  My version of vi uses tilde to show empty
> | lines.  So, if I open a file in vi that contains just an int (0), I will
> | see exactly what you describe.
> |
> | Please explain to someone who is just a user what you mean.  After all,
> you are
> | the "tech".
> |
> |           Kenny
> |
> | On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:46:16PM -0700, EPYD Productions wrote:
> | > this was logged in as root. and even tried opening it with vi and it was
> | > emty but a zero and tildes.
> | > Blind Tech
> | > website: http://www.users.qwest.net/~drjann/epyd/
> | > contact info can be found on website
> | > email list: EPYD Radio-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
> | > EPYD the only place to be!
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> | > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> | > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:44 PM
> | > Subject: Re: changing voice in speakup
> | >
> | >
> | > | EPYD Productions writes:
> | > | > tried accessing /proc/speakup/voice and "permission denied"
> | > |
> | > |
> | > | Oh dear. Here we go with Unix 101 again ...
> | > |
> | > | So, who accessed /proc/speakup/voice
> | > |
> | > | To find out the answer, type:
> | > |
> | > | whoami
> | > |
> | > | or
> | > |
> | > | who am i
> | > |
> | > |
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