How to use espeakup, revisited...

[Gaijin]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:36:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Why are you putting the rmmod line above into rc.local?

	Because I like starting the puter off with the hardware synth, 
then switch over when the system is ready to go.  That way I can tell 
what the heck is happening if something goes wrong with the 
conglomeration of other programs needed to have software voice 
synthesis.

	Why else spend $$$ on a hardware synthesizer so the system isn't 
bogged down even more, doing voices in software?  I'm just using the 
software synth so I can eventually make my puter sound like a 
gurl...when they get around to making a Martha Harmon-Pardee voice for 
espeak.

	If I could make the hardware synth sound female, I'd do that and 
keep the CPU cycles for other jobs.  I also want something working in 
case the software synth goes down for some reason.  Most of the code is 
still in alpha, so it seems pretty reasonable to keep a backup 
synthesizer available.>


> You seem to have figured it out easily enough, along with most
> everyone else it seems. If you really feel though that this should be
> documented somewhere, then there's nothing stopping you from contributing.

	What does it look like I'm doing?  My name isn't on the package 
maintainer's list.  I only managed it because I knew about rc.local and 
a little something about loading and unloading modules, which people new 
to linux wouldn't know, obviously.  Nor would they know to look in 
/lib/modules/{kernel-version}/extra/speakup for the synth module names, 
understand a little bash scripting, or which does what.  And to top it 
off, it suggests right in the espeakup man page to mention it on the 
mailing list, so get off my back. <laughs>

	I still haven't figured out why my puter stopped beeping at me 
when I press the wrong key, so it's evident that all the bugs in Squeeze 
haven't been worked out yet.  Without sighted assistance to call on late 
at night after an upgrade when things stop working, it only seems 
reasonable to insure I have a backup option ready to go, and the 
documentation at hand.  If suggesting contributions here in the mailing 
list is politically uncorrect, just let me know so I can killfile you 
for being an Elitist Putz.  I believe it's also good to rehash how to do 
things while SpeakUP is still in a state of flux and things change from 
one day to the next, especially for those of us who find the web to be 
the clunkiest interface for the visually impared that was ever created.

	Anyway, we don't need people like you trying to censor sources 
of information the rest of us may desperately need. <grins>

			Michael

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