Speech Dispatcher at Startup

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Steve,

You do not have an appropriate path available for your speech software 
while rc.local is executing. Be sure to adjust your path at the start of 
rc.local and all will be well. 

Chuck

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:47:15AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I think this topic has come up in the past but don't remember if there
> was any resolution to it.  It seems that I can't get Speakup to come up
> talking with Speech Dispatcher via the normal system startup scripts.  I
> use rc.local to spawn my rc.speakup script.  I've actually made this
> observation on two different laptops; both of them use Slackware and one
> of these machines for sure, show sftsyn as the value in
> /proc/speakup/synth_name an yet no speech.  If I run this exact same
> script after logging on, all works fine.  How I found the variable to be
> sftsyn before speech was to boot the machine, wait til I heard a beep
> telling me the login prompt was there, logged in, typed 'cat
> /proc/speakup/synth_name, then ran my rc.speakup restart sftsyn, then my
> machine talks.  I see no funny stuff in any logs and you would think it
> was running all along and just restarted but yet I never get any speech
> until I login and restart the thing.
> 
> Any ideas what could be going on here?
> 
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