intro and questions

Tue Jul 29 22:57:03 EDT 2008

Hello Janina

I'm sorry if it seems like I'm completely new. I've done the folowing
and found the binary you put up on tsynth.com.
I've edited the file specified menu.lst and my kernel line now looks
like this

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.10-86.spk.fc9.i686 ro
root=UUID=f78d3f62-f05a-4dab-a0f6-299adf756710 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.25.10-86.spk.fc9.i686.img
speakup.synth=soft
I'm not sure if hte last part concerning speakup is correct since I'm
not sure what version of speakup I have. I've downloaded the latest
speakup from a mirror using git. I'm jsut not sure if I should follow
the commands specified to rebuild for my kernel or how i go about
patchign my kernel since speakup is already installed.
I understand that i need speech-dispatcher and speachd-up in order to
hear software speech when using speakup. However, on that part, I can't
install speechd-up since I'm not successful in getting speech-dispatcher
to work on Fedora. I can install it from source and install the 
necessary libraries, but when trying to test by envoking spd-say hello
the following error occurs:
spd-say hello
I get the following
spd-say error while loading shared libraries libspeechd.so.2 can not
open shared object file
no such file or directory

So I can't continue with speechd-up if speech-dispatcher is not working.
I'm sorry if I seem to be sending amounts of high traffic to the list.

Thank you for everyones time
Alonzo

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On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:50 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: 
> 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
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
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> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
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