speakup and ubuntu

[Sean Murphy]

No, it is a commercial application.  I managed to get it about 12 months 
ago.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Oats" <moats at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: speakup and ubuntu


> 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
>>Subject: RE: speakup and ubuntu
>>
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>> > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
>> > On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor
>> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:30 PM
>> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> > Subject: Re: speakup and ubuntu
>> >
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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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