still having trouble with software speech on Grml

[Scott Berry]

Okay Micah,

I appended to lilo fine.  Everything there went well.  But when I echo 
the flite synth like this "echo flite >/proc/speakup/synthname" and 
then doo speechd-up it does not work.  I do have sound varified by 
soundtest.  And here is what the speakup 2.0 software page says.  I did 
add the "/dev/softsynth" and also "/dev/synth."
Here is a part of the manual and the part that is giving me trouble 
again is the echo command.

Before you can use a software synthesizer, you must have created the
/dev/softsynth device.  If you have not already done so, issue the
following commands as root:

cd /dev
mknod softsynth c 10 26

While we are at it, we might just as well create the /dev/synth device,
which can be used to let user space programs send information to your
synthesizer.  To create /dev/synth, change to the /dev directory, and
issue the following command as root:

mknod synth c 10 25

Now you can begin using your software synthesizer.  In order to do so,
echo the sftsyn keyword to the synth_name proc entry like this:

echo sftsyn >/proc/speakup/synth_name

Next run the speechd_up command like this:

speechd_up &

Your synth should now start talking, and you should be able to adjust
the pitch, rate, etc.

In this section, we have assumed that your copy of Speakup was compiled
with the speakup_sftsyn component either built into the kernel, or
compiled as a module.

-- 
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