Speech-dispatcher

[Tomas Cerha]

Paul Hunt wrote:
> Can someone tell me if speech-dispatcher has to be run as a system process rather than a user one?

Both should be possible.  Which instance is used is controlled via the
port number.  If you run SD on a port number other than the default one,
you must indicate it to its clients.

> When I do modprobe speakup_soft start=1 and speechd-up -d as indicated by Willum I don't get any
> errors but nothing happens if I try to switch to a console and type
something.

Does spd-say work?

Best regards, Tomas