intro and questions

[Janina Sajka]

It's a .gz file. That means it's compressed. It's also a binary file--no
make, or anything of the kind required.

1.) use the gzip command to uncompress the file:

gzip spk-connect-ttsynth-1.1.tar.gz

2.) This will give you spk-connect-ttsynth. Copy (or move) that file
somewhere where it can be executed from anywhere. /usr/local/bin is the
recommended place.

3.)	If you've properly loaded Speakup's software speech support, you
simply execute the spk-connect-ttsynth binary to get speech.

NOTE: How to tell whether you've properly set Speakup up depends on what
version you're running. If you're up to date do:

cat /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth

You should get one word, 'soft' as output.

I don't know how I can make this simpler. I'm sorry. I don't understand
what "same results" means.

Janina

Alonzo writes:
> Hello Janina,
> 
> I've looked at hte new files you've posted. The only file I found
> regarding ttsynth and speakup was spk-connect-ttsynth-1.1.tar.gz
> I downloded the file and found hte same results. I'm unable to go
> through the make process. You mention that if hte make process does not
> work, for me to build my own binary. I'm not exactly sure how to do
> this. So if there is a website explaining how to use .c files then I
> would like to take al ook at it to familiarize myself with these types
> of files. I get the same erros, make error1. It complains that htere is
> no value for pitch, rait, memberHandle, and a hundred other errors.
> Sorry for being quite new at this types of things. I used linux a long
> time ago, but have forgotten lot's of what has to be done. I enjoy
> learning though and using the operating system. I have no windows so I'm
> lucky I was able to install linux to use it.
> 
> 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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