Something Broken in Speakup with spkout

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

I struggled with these errors quite a few months ago, and never figured
them out. Talkwith borrows some code from the speakupconf load section,
but makes no effort to save anything. I think the problem lies with the
speakupconf save function. I am unable still to get that to work
without the errors you mentioned. I have essentially abandoned trying
to save updated parameters that way, and update them manually, which is
a pain, but produces files that can be loaded back into speakup safely.

I don't know if others have this experience or not, but my own solution
was no solution at all, just a kludge. 

Chuck


On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:18:11AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I'mve just noticed something.  When I use the speakout synth on a
> serial port, I'm getting a bunch of those dreaded
> "cat: write error: Invalid argument"
> messages all over the place when I try and set up my speech parameters
> and I notice that I even get that error when setting punctuation
> characters.  Yet, if I specify to use soft with the talkwith script, I
> get my punctuation characters back and I only get two of the "invalid
> argument" errors.
> 
> I verified that the directories /etc/spkout and /etc/soft both contain
> valid values in the parameters in question.
> 
> What could be the difference here? I just updated my Debian Squeeze
> system shortly before running into this.  Any ideas?
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