speech-dispatcher questions

[Chris Norman]

As far as I know, you don't use speech-dispatcher. That is for software 
speech.

Just either do:
modprobe apollo
or:
echo "apollo" > /proc/speakup/synth_name

I think that's how it works.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4 at msn.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:26 PM
Subject: speech-dispatcher questions


> Hello,
> I have a few questions.
>
> How can I get my apollo synth working with speech-dispatcher? I noticed 
> the apollo.conf file in the modules directory, but no sign of it in the 
> speechd.conf file to add the module. I tried the following line without 
> the quotes surrounding the entire line
> "AddModule "apollo"    "sd_apollo"    "apollo.conf""
> and changed the default module to apollo, but nothing. Any way to use the 
> apollo with orca?
>
> I also noticed that when using orca with speech-dispatcher through 
> gnome-speech I was unable to change the voice of espeak. I think that 
> there has been work to make speech-dispatcher work directly with orca, but 
> wasn't sure which project it is at the freebsoft website (I thought that 
> was where the work was done).
>
> Any help with the above would be welcome.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
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