starting software speech at boot up

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Daniel, and everyone,

	Since my litetalk died a few weeks ago I have been forced to try harder to get speakup/softspeech working better.

	I have two amd64 machines and one intel core2duo notebook.

	Since softspeech stop talking frequently on all these machines (not just the 64-bit), I wanted an easy way to stop/restart softspeech at any time. Thanks to John Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>, I got his script for /etc/init.d/speechd-up along with his debian packages for both intell and amd64 speechd-up version 0.5:

	http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/

	You have to modify the script for the newer speakup/linux filesystem "/sys/module/speakup/parameters" as opposed to the older "/proc/speakup" path.

	This script also invokes speechd-up using 'nice' so you can adjust priority for your system.

	It makes it easy to stop, start, restart the speechd-up daemon.

	Thanks to all the people who have contributed to the speechd-up / speech-dispatcher project!

	--terry

PS I got my new tripletalk synth yesterday, and it will serve for debugging early boot problems, but I am very impressed with the speech quality and responsiveness of the speechd-up/speech-dispatcher/espeak combination on my machines. I think I'll use soft speech for a lot of everyday work from now on. Thanks again to all!

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:23:43AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have successfully got the module speakup_soft to start at boot-up, but
> I can't get speechd-up to start at boot up.
> Does anyone know how i can start speechd-up on boot up on debian?
> I don't have an init script... So if anyone can tell me the best way of
> starting it I would appreciate it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Dalton
> 
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> <d.dalton at iinet.net.au>
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Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	705-812-3744
E-mail:	terry at wasaga.homeip.net

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