intro and questions

[Alonzo]

Hello Janina,

Ok, I can do that. However... The make process is unsuccessful it says a
bunch of erros
example, ttsynth has no membername rait
It has a total of 337 erros. So I'm not able to do the make process.

Alonzo
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 19:20 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Georgina Joyce writes:
> > > 1. When using the speakup connector, for ttsynth, I just coppy the make
> > > file into /usr/local/bin/
> > > then creat an alias to start speak up.
> 
> 
> No, no. 
> a. Take the .gz file you downloaded and uncompress it. This will create
> a directory.
> b. cd to that directory and type 'make' and press enter.
> c. If all goes well, this creates a binary called spk-connect-ttsynth.
> Copy or mv that file to /usr/local/bin. This is what you type to start
> the connector talking.
> d. But that's probably more than you want to type every time you start
> speech. That's the reason to create a symbolic link to this file. So
> that you can have something short to type to start speech.
> 
> Note that the connector can only be built on a 32-bit system at this
> time.
> > > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf
> It's /boot/grub/grub.conf
> 
> > No, in an editor you open /boot/grub/menu.lst with root privillages.
> 
> Well, Fedora provides menu.lst as a symbolic link to grub.conf. So,
> consider this an example of the symbolic link in 1d above.
> 
> 
> > You'll see a line that starts title, then possibly root then one
> > starting with kernel.  Something like this:
> > 
> Here's an actual Fedora kernel statement. Note there's a horribly long
> UID designator for the root argument.
> 
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.11-97.spk.fc9.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=800328ee-c064-4bfb-ad96-d4086c8cc44e vga=0xF07
> speakup.synth=soft speakup.quiet=1
> 
> > I know that there's been some changes but I thought that the software
> > synth was:
> > 
> > speakup.synth=sftsyn
> 
> Not any longer. It's now called 'soft' . See the above kernel statement
> from grub.conf.
> 
> Janina
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