changing espeak's voice for speakup

[jeremy]

Hello and thank you for getting back. I did find the file, located in 
/etc/default/espeakup and it seems that it was set correctly with en-us 
which I'd assume would be the correct voice. For what ever reason 
though, it seems the en-us voice is the Scottish one. Not sure why this 
may be. The install I'm noticing this on is the talking installer for 
debian squeeze. I've tried out the 32 bit installer previously back with 
lenny and now both installers on squeeze and notice the same thing. 
After it asks me for my location and language which I set for english 
and us, it changes to the Scottish voice. It's really odd. Any more 
ideas of why this may be happening and how I can change it would be 
awesome. Also, thanks again for the /etc/conf.d/ idea. I was unaware of 
what exactly this file could be used for. yet another great thing to know.
Take care.
On 6/4/2011 12:38 AM, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> Well, it depends on your distribution. On a Gentoo system, you can edit
> /etc/conf.d/espeakup, there's a variable there which you can use to
> change the voice the daemon uses. Once you change it, you can just do
> /etc/init.d/espeakup restart to implement the change. I imagine other
> distributions have a similar procedure, yes? At the very least, you can
> just edit your init script to pass the --default-voice argument to
> espeakup when it starts.