intro and questions

[Janina Sajka]

I've put a binary on the ttsynth.com home page. I've also edited the
README for TTSynth, since some particulars for newer Speakup kernels are
now different. Please try the binary and reference the new README.

Janina

Alonzo writes:
> 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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> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
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