Hi If you have dectalk and want to use it, do the following: Edit your speechd.conf file (usually in /etc/speech-dispatcher or /usr/local/etc/speech-dispatcher) and add a line to load the dtk-generic module. You'll see lines that begin with AddModule add this under the ones that exist already: AddModule "dtk-generic" "sd_generic" "dtk-generic.conf" Note the uppercase letters in AddModule. Now, find where it says: DefaultModule flite and change that to: DefaultModule dtk-generic Note that you need speech-dispatcher 0.3 or 0.4.1 to do this (0.4 has a bug in the module). Now, restart speech dispatcher and speechd_up and DECTalk should work. Dectalk 5 works better than dectalk 4.61, but they both work. I'm not sure what the status on Cepstral is. I don't have it and I'm not going to buy it if they continue the $30 per voice price scheme, that can get a bit on the expensive side. Currently, it's not possible as far as I'm aware to switch software synths on the fly with speechd-up. To switch synths, you have to change the DefaultModule line in the config file and reload speech dispatcher and speechd_up. HTH On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: JS> Dear Friends: JS> JS> Some weeks ago there was intense activity on the Speakup list as several folks worked to get various software speech synths functional for Speakup. I'm just wondering what the status of all that is as of today. JS> JS> For myself I have Speakup working with Flite and Speechd_up, but I'd rather drive DEC Talk or Cepstral.
