killing speech from cli

[Chris Brannon]

Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> writes:

> Thanks for the reply. I thought you could echo none or your synth name
> to the synth file in the sys file system, however, I can kill speech, but
> can't get it back... I'll have to try the latest speakup out of guit

Yes, you can change synths by echoing the name to
/sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth
Echoing a value of none will stop speech.  You also need to kill
speechd-up before changing synths.
This applies to espeakup too.
You probably don't have speech after changing synth from none to soft,
because your old daemon is running.  It's reading from a file descriptor
which became invalid as soon as you changed synth from soft to none.
That's just a wild guess on my part.

-- Chris