7. Using Speakup on a Shared Machine

If the machine running Speakup will also be used by a sighted person, you may want to set your default speech synthesizer to "none" when you are configuring your system. When you want to use the synthesizer, you can simply enter the following command at the boot prompt:

	linux speakup_synth=synthname
	

synthname must be replaced with one of the Speakup synthesizer keywords listed in the Requirements section.