question about speakup and speechd-up

[Bill Cox]

If you just use espeak, I think you can 'sudo apt-get remove
speechd-up', and 'sudo apt-get install espeakup'.  That tends to be
how most people use it, I think.  I use speechd-up, because I love the
voxin ibmtts voice for speech-dispatcher.

Bill

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Berkó Norbert <berko.norbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have troubles with configuring speakup.
> The install works fine under 9.10 with Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from
> Lucid, and i am pleased with collaboration of Pulseaudio and Orca. I start
> Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up on system-wide-daemon.
> What shall i do to not to say "capital" at the beginning of a word?
> I configured the rate and pitch, and saved with speakupconf, and now it
> loads my settings at every system boot.
> I would like to hear only those punctuations like in Orca. For example not
> to say colon, dash, comma or period at the end of a sentence. I found in
> /etc/speakup the following files: punct_all, punct_some, punct_none,
> punct_level. How can i modify my settings?
> My last question would be that is it possible, to use Espeakup with speakup
> if the Pulseaudio is enabled on system-wide-daemon? The speech-dispatcher is
> running too system-wide-daemon according to Bill Cox's instructions.
> May it help that compile an espeak with Pulseaudio support? Cause i just use
> this synthesizer.
>
> Thanks for your answer
>
> Regards,
>
> Norbert
>
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