Speakup and locales

[William Hubbs]

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Hi Hermann,

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:44:18PM +0200, Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> after a while I reactivated Speakup on my GRML system - version 2008-11.
> The reason was that I've discovered Espeakup, which makes it possible to
> use Speakup with Espeak without a server such as Speech-dispatcher.
> Doing this I had some trouble in setting up Speakup/Espeakup/espeak to
> speak my language - German - correctly.
> It ends up in adjusting /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters, so
> that all letters, numbers and punctuation characters are spoken in a
> usual German way.

Actually, there is an easier way to do this.  As root, do the following:

echo 1 > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct

This will allow espeak to handle character pronunciation instead of
speakup.  This feature is still in its early stages, so let us know if
you have issues with it.

Thanks,

William

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