Speakup and Software Speech with Gentoo Linux

[William Hubbs]

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Hi Keith,

The default synth option has been removed, since we aren't using it.
You have to tell speakup which synthesizer to run on the kcl if speakup
is built in.

For grub, add the following to the kernel line in your grub.conf.

speakup.synth=synthname

To run software speech, use:

speakup.synth=soft

I don't know if you saw my message yesterday, but gentoo now has speakup
available as a package, so you don't need to use git unless you want to
continue building speakup into the kernel.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:41:31PM -0700, Keithint38 at Commspeed.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> Just curious with the Git version of Speakup if anyone has managed to get
> Gentoo Linux working with latest version of Speech-Dispatcher, Speechd-up
> 0.4, and the native ESpeak module?
> My Gentoo box has kernel 2.6.24-Gentoo-R-whatever, and currently has the
> Speakup Git with the software speech synthesizer driver built directly
> into the kernel.
> Regards, --Keith.
> P.s.
> Does Speakup still automatically load synthesizers? or must boot-up
> options be spessifyed in the bootloader configuration file? I.e. LILO,
> GRUB?
> I put sftsyn into the line in the kernel config of Speakup that had None
> in the () feeld and put it as (fstsyn) and assume that software speech
> will automatically launch on system boot.
> If not, then I can edit my grub.conf, and place speakup.soft or whatever I
> need to pre-pend as a kernel option.
> Also please do not give me LILO instructions as I only use GRUB. :).
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh at gentoo.org
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