OOPS! Told you I was a newbie (smile). Forgot to run LILO, once I did that and rebooted, all's fine. Thanks, Pete De Vasto ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Covici" <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:27 PM Subject: Re: specifying a synthe at the boot prompt > Did you run lilo again after the modifications? > > > "Pete De Vasto" <pdevasto at incyte.com> writes: > > > Hi again: > > > > Taking this one step further, from kind of a newbie who realizes this must > > have been asked before.. > > > > I started out wiht an Accent SA synthesizer, now I'd rather use my > > DoubleTalk LT, so I went to /etc/lilo.conf and modified the last line to > > read: > > > > append="speakup_synth=ltlk" > > > > Now, when I reboot, the DoubleTalk LT does come up talking, but the very > > first words I hear from it are that it found an Accent-SA synth, and if I go > > to /proc/speakup to try and tweak settings like rate, volume and the like, > > they don't seem to have any effect. Is lilo.conf really the file I need to > > modify here, or is there something else. By the way, this is RedHat 7 we're > > working with. > > > > Thanks for all the help. > > Pete > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Nestrud" <ccn at uark.edu> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:46 PM > > Subject: Re: specifying a synthe at the boot prompt > > > > > > > I looked at speakup.c, and here's what should be a complete list of > > > supported synthesizers and their ID's. It might help someone looking > > > through the archives later. > > > The option is speakup_synth=ID where ID is listed below. You > > > can also use speakup_ser=number where number corresponds to the serial > > > port your synthesizer is connected to; 0 for com1 in dos, 1 for com2, 2 > > > for com3, and 3 for com4. If this number isn't specified, speakup will > > > probe these ports looking for the synthesizer. > > > > > > Accent PC: acntpc > > > Accent SA: acntsa > > > Apolo: apolo > > > Audapter: audptr > > > Braille 'n Speak, and other such Blazie products: bns > > > DecTalk External (older model): decext > > > DecTalk PC (newer model): dectlk > > > DoubleTalk PC (internal): dtlk > > > LiteTalk/DoubleTalk LT (external): ltlk > > > Speakout: spkout > > > Transport: txprt > > > This list is current as of speakup version 0.10. > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:06:15PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: > > > > Try: > > > > speakup_synth=<key_word_for_your_synth> > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brian Moore wrote: > > > > > > > > > greetings all. wish this list was archived. was looking for the > > syntax to > > > > > give speakup a synthe on the command line at the boot prompt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I know this came up before but couldn't try it then. > > > > > > > > > > any info would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > thanks. Brian. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
