Getting speakup running with grml

[al Sten-Clanton]

In accord with what you say, hardware speech kicks in later than it used to.
I think it starts now at about the time Flite tells you "kernel should
support speakup now."

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 5:45 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Getting speakup running with grml

I assume you are wanting to use software speech output as your example is
for the software synthesiser speakup module. I will briefly mention support
for a hardware synth after the software speech option.

GRML has a special option for speakup with software speech, it is the
swspeak boot option. So when your CD starts to spin you should get a boot
prompt, now enter:
grml swspeak

and press enter, and then you will hear a message in the midst of the
booting process saying that software speech has been enabled and that you
need to type swpseak when booting finishes. You will get a speech message
saying that booting has finished. Please note although both of these
messages are given by flite, the default for speakup will be espeak once you
get speakup running. Now when booting has finished (I find the message comes
a few seconds before the machine really is ready) you then type:
swspeak

and press enter. Speakup should start speaking with espeak.

Now the swspeak option on the boot prompt can be given an option to say
whether espeakup or speech-dispatcher should be used, if no value is given
to the swspeak option it defaults to espeakup. Refer to the cheatcodes docs
for GRML on how to specify whether to use espeakup or speech-dispatcher.

If you want to hear what happens while you boot the CD, then may be the
beginning of my podcast for installing GRML with software speech would be
useful. It can be found on
http://www.mwhapples.plus.com/linux/audio/grml_install.ogg.

You can give GRML the speakup.synth option, so for me with my apollo synth I
would type at the boot prompt:
grml speakup.synth=apollo

and press enter. Speakup should just start talking (it may not happen
immediately as the script starting speakup is well into the boot process).

You should be aware although GRML supports the speakup.synth option, it
doesn't support the other speakup options such as speakup.ser as GRML has
speakup compiled as modules and it is a script checking for the
speakup.synth option and loading the correct module.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, David Sexton wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">How do I 
> get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd?
> does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do grml speakup 
> synth=softsynth does this prompt time out?
>
> </div>

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