-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. To configure speakup for software speech, you will need three packages: 1. speech-dispatcher from http://www.freebsoft.org. this is an interface to several speach synths under linux. 2. speechd-up http://www.freebsoft.org. this is the interface between speech-dispatcher and speakup. 3. flite http://www.cmuflite.org. this is a software speech package for linux. so once you get all those packages and install them, compile speakup with sftsyn as a module. this can be done durning kernel configuration. then create the softsynth device by doing mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26. once the kernel has been recompiled with sftsyn as a module, load it, run speech-dispatcher then speechd_up. that should work. - From my experience you are always better off with a hardware synth. they are usually more responsive and you get speech earlier in the booting process. On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:51:56AM -0600, Lorne Webber wrote: > Hello Folks: > This is the first time posting to this group so I'm not sure if this is a > little out of scope, but I was hoping somebody out there could give some > suggestions > for the following situation: > I'm a totally blind second year student in the department of computer > science at the University of Alberta, and for the rest of my degree, most of > my courses > involve me using Linux. > I'm working with the system admin for the department of computing science to > get Linux up and working with speak up. > Since the rest of the students will be working in the slackware environment > we decided to go the same route, which shouldn't pose any problems as speak > up is supposed to work fine with slackware. > We're first trying it out on a Dell box in the lab, and once we have that up > and running, we're going to try and put it on my laptop, dual booting it > with > Windows using Lilo. > The system admin is the one who's doing the nuts and bolts of this, as > currently the only way I have of accessing the Linux systems there is by > remote connecting > to the Linux systems using an ssh client over windows. > I was hoping you folks could have a look at the following email from the > system admin, and give some ideas on the questions > he poses. > Again I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this sort of thing, if > you could direct me to a more appropriate place please do. > Thanks for your time. > Lorne > ----------- > Hello, > I am a long-in-tooth system administrator here in the Dept. of Computing > Science at the University of Alberta. > We're trying to get a Dell GX270 working with > Slackware version 10 and Speak-up. The Dell's processor is a P4 2.8GHz > Intel and it has 512 Mbytes of RAM and lots of disk space(>40 Gbytes). > My first problem is that I am "blind-technology" disabled, so I have been > learning on the fly. I was hoping to use the onboard sound on the Dell as > I > saw from the Speak-up web-site that there were two software synthesizers, > the TuxTalk software synthesizer and also (perhaps) the Speakup soft synth > device. I've found out that I don't know what the softsynth device is nor > can I find any explanation of it(although that is my problem). Could you > explain to me what the softsynth device is? > The Slackware kernel appears to be configured properly as when the > softsynth > device is set at bootup I see in /proc/speakup/synth_name that the proper > thing (sftsyn) has been set and I can set the volume and other things just > fine. > Problem number two is: I need two examples of system configurations that > work. One for a workstation and one for a laptop. The bases of the > problem > is: is it better to work with a hardware synthesizer with either system or > will a software synthesizer like TuxTalk do the trick? I'm looking for a > statement like: > "a workstation P4 based system with 512 Mbytes of RAM, a SoundBlaster > compatible sound card and TuxTalk on Slackware 10 works" > or "a laptop with a P4 and 256 Mbytes of RAM, Intel built-in sound and > Tuxtalk will work just fine" > or "its best for a workstation to go with a P4 based system, 512 Mbytes of > RAM and a Doubletalk PCI card". > Thank you for your time and consideration. > - Rod > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- LILO, you've got me on my knees! -- David Black, dblack at pilot.njin.net, with apologies to Derek and the Dominos, and Werner Almsberger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBL3tz9XVrM3ri110RAmjxAJ9l0oRX0a4gHoPIxYU/pvzi6tOTUgCeK5PL fLc4C6pn7Zv7Wd0vLFWzgn4= =lq6F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
