Speakup Parameters Still Broke

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Wed Oct 22 04:44:00 EDT 2008


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Anyone else observe these remaining problems?

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:07:03PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> When I run speakupconf save, all seems to be OK and I don't get any
> "invalid parameter" errors.  But when I do a 'speakupconf load' I do
> get one error when catting the values back.  I can't figure out a way
> to make the operation more verbose so I can't tell you now which
> variable is causing the error.  However while using the softsynth plus
> espeakup 0.3, I do get a strange deal.  When doing a 'speakupconf
> load', I get the fore-mentioned cat error followed by a drastic
> reduction in pitch and rate.  Whats more, the values in the sudo
> variables are not changed but yet the sound changes.  If I use the
> speakup keyboard functions to reset pitch and rate, then all is fine
> again.  I will include a script of what I did when this happened.
> 
> When I was doing this with my speakout synth, I got the single error
> on the load function but I did not experience the pitch and rate
> changes I did with software speech.
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> Script started on Mon 20 Oct 2008 08:55:21 PM MST
> lnx3:~# speakupconf load
> cat: write error: Invalid argument
> lnx3:~# cdcd soft
> bash: cd: soft: No such file or directory
> lnx3:~# cd /etc/speakup/soft
> lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat pitch
> 4
> 
> lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat rate
> 9
> 
> lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# speakupconf load
> cat: write error: Invalid argument
> lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat rate
> 9
> 
> lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat /sys/module/speakup/parameters/rate
> 9
> 
> lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat /sys/module/speakup/parameters/pitch
> 4
> 
> lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# exit
> exit
> 
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