speakup and ubuntu

[Chris Norman]

What I did was:
Go into a console as root. Make sure your box is updated. Go into 
/etc/apt/sources.list (I think), and remove all the hash (#) symbols from 
the lines otherwise starting with "deb" or "source" or whatever they are, 
with addresses starting with http after them, then do:

apt-get install speech-dispatcher
apt-get install speechd-up

Now you can type:
modprobe speakup_sftsyn
speech-dispatcher
speechd-up

My /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf set festival as the default synth 
anyway. I always start with the GUI on ubuntu, so festival is always started 
to. Otherwise just do `festival --server` or whatever the command is and 
then run the above.

I have a start-speakup file which is named in my .bash_login file, the 
script looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
modprobe speakup_sftsyn
speech-dispatcher
speechd-up
echo -e "\7"

THis script is prety self-explanitory, except for the echo which makes the 
system speaker beep once.

This script has never failed.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Ford" <scott at adaptiveit.us>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
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Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:15 PM
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
>
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> On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor
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> While you're still in graphical mode, press the kill speakup key next to 
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> scroll lock to the right of f12.  All other consoles will work correctly 
> at
> that point.
>
> Lorenzo
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