Debian upgrade to Jessie

[Gregory Nowak]

You need to load the soft_synth module as root, like this:

modprobe soft_synth

BTW, I, like you, have a system with a doubletalk pc. My box is a 1.1GHz
pentium III with 768 megs of ram. I am still running wheezy on my
boxes, but see no reason why jessie shouldn't work for you. If I
upgrade to jessie before you report on your experience, I'll post here
on how that went for this particular box. I probably won't get around
to upgrading my machines until a few months from now though.

You should have no problem using speakup with espeak/espeakup on your
machine. Your orca experience doesn't surprise me though. Good luck.

Greg


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:20:56PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote:
> All,
> Trying to test speakup with espeak on wheezie.
> Installed espeakup package
> made /dev/softsynth as per instructions in speakupguide
> 
> first there is no
> /speakup/synth
> closest I can find is
> /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth
> when try, as root, to 
> echo soft >/sys/modules/speakup/parameters/synth
> get permission denied
> when run espeakup get
> cannot open softhsynth, no such device.
> /dev/softhsynth exists.
> Oh yes, espeak is on system, works with orca 
> 
>   Tom Fowle
>   wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm


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