spd neither crashes nor speak

[Zachary Kline]

Howdy,
You can actually unmask the speechd-up, speech-dispatcher, and espeak 
packages safely.  They're not going to cause problems.
What you do is:
echo "app-accessibility/speechd-up ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.use
Repeat this with the other packages, making sure to get the syntax exactly 
right: two greater than signs, and a tilda before x86.
Then emerge the packages, and it'll automatically build them for you. 
Finally, go into:
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
with a text editor--nano will do.  Find the line that says 'defaultmodules 
flite', or defaultmodule, I forget.  Change that to 'defaultmodule 
espeak-generic'.
Now, save that file, go into /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules, and edit 
espeak-generic.conf.  There's a section which mentions a program called 
'speak'.  Change that speak to espeak, and finally save the file, and add 
the programs to the appropriate runlevels like so:
rc-update add speech-dispatcher boot
rc-update add speechd-up default
Reboot and you'll get speech.
If you've any questions, let me know, I'll be glad to help.
Yours,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cleverson" <clever92000 at yahoo.com.br>
To: <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:22 AM
Subject: spd neither crashes nor speak


Hello all

About a year ago, I started using Oralux Linux. Recently, I decided to
install Gentoo Linux, mainly to learn more how the system works. Besides it,
I still use MS-Windows for some tasks.

I've just finished installing Gentoo, and currently I'm having a
problem to get Speakup to speak via speech-dispatcher using ESpeak speech
synthesiser.

I had to install ESpeak, Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from source, as
they are not available from the stable branch of Gentoo's repository.

Now, I can use eSpeak as a standalone synthesiser, but
speech-dispatcher doesn't speak anything through eSpeak. For example, when I
run the
command:
espeak -vpt "teste."
it speaks fine. Then I run:
speech-dispatcher
and it starts fine. I am sure that speech-dispatcher doesn't report errors,
because I've set log level to 4 and observed that it launches espeak-generic
OK. But when I run for test:
spd-say "test."
it doesn't report errors, but doesn't speak anything at all. I am sure that
my sound card is working correctly, because eSpeak speaks well when runing
as
standalone, as I already said. But neither "spd-say" from speech-dispatcher
speaks anything, nor speechd-up does it...

Do you have any tip that could help me please?

Thanks,
Cleverson

"Be realistic; ask for the impossible."



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