speech dispatcher with speakup

Kenny Hitt kenny at hittsjunk.net
Thu Jun 3 07:51:14 EDT 2010


Hi.  The current state of speech-dispatcher speechd-up and the opentts fork is confusing.
Speech-dispatcher exists in Debian, but speechd-up and the opentts fork appear to only
be available in Ubuntu.
For now, I use speech-dispatcher for Orca and espeak for speakup.

          Kenny

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:32:02PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> Sorry, thought it came from Debian, but I am running Ubuntu Jaunty which 
> has the package under the name of speechd-up.
> Regards, Willem
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 
> > Hi.  Although speech-dispatcher exists in Debian, speechd-up doesn't.
> > This is according to apt-cache search speech on a box running Debian Sid.
> > 
> >           Kenny
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:13:18PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > > Once speech-dispatcher is running, you just run speechd-up -d
> > > There is a fork of speech-dispatcher and speechd-up under the name 
> > > opentts.
> > > The programs have different names, but are the maintained versions of the 
> > > mensioned programs.
> > > 
> > > The debian based distros have packages for both speech-dispatcher and 
> > > speechd-up.
> > > HTH, Willem
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hello!
> > > > How do I use speakup with speech dispatcher?
> > > > I used to use speechd-up, but that was a long time ago, and now that seems to be abandonware.
> > > > /Kristoffer
> > > > 
> > > > Kristoffer Gustafsson
> > > > Trelleborgsvägen 1b
> > > > 514 33 Tranemo
> > > > 
> > > > tel: 0325-42093
> > > > mobil: 073-8226473
> > > > e-post: kg84 at dreamwld.com
> > > > Eller
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