speakup and ubuntu

[Marcel Oats]

Hi there, the correct command is
speechd-up
Incidentally, what's the story with viavoice?  I remember it was 
free, but I can't find it anywhere.  I guess the correct name is IBM 
tts,  but at any rate, would a debian package exist?

Marcel
At 10:34 Ay M 3/12/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Scott.
>
>Steps to get software synths to work are:
>
>1.  Modify the speech-dispatcher configuration file found in the
>/etc/speech-dispatcher directory.  You have to modify this file to support
>the software synth you want to use.  The configuraiton file already has some
>defualt free and non-free synths.  EG:  espeech, flight, Dectalk Software
>and Viavoice.  Make sure you restart speech-dispatcher via the
>'/etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher restart' command before trying to get
>software to work with Speakup.  I don't know If this is really required, but
>I do it to make sure.
>
>2.  Once you have done that, load the speakup moduel for software speech by:
>
>modprobe speakup_sftsyn
>
>3.  Then run dispatcher:
>
>speech-dispatcher
>
>4.  Then run:
>
>speakd-up (I hope I hav this command correct, I am working from memory).
>
>Assumming your sound is correctly configured on your machine.  Then it all
>should work.
>
>I have this in a script to do for myself.
>
>Sean
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Ford" <scott at adaptiveit.us>
>To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
><speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 1:15 AM
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> > Hi,
> > Would you know how to get speakup working with the software synth?
> > I cannot seem to figure it out.  Thank you in advanced.
> > Scott
> >
> >
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> > While you're still in graphical mode, press the kill speakup key next to
> > the
> > scroll lock to the right of f12.  All other consoles will work correctly
> > at
> > that point.
> >
> > Lorenzo
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