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Yes, you can actually switch synthesizers on the fly including
software; the name of the soft synth is sftsyn. I built a script I
use which can switch synths on the fly. It needs a bit more
refinement but works for me in its present state. It works great on
my Hitachi laptop but gives me a problem on my desktop at home. For
some reason, I get an error with Speechd-up and I have to manually
killall speechd_up and then run it again from the colsole and then it
talks. I run this script from /etc/rc.d in Slackware with the
following command syntax:
/etc/rc.d/rc.speakup start sftsyn
The second parameter can be any of the supported synths for speakup as
long as your kernel supports it and you have that model, of course:).
I will attach it inline below.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Shel script to load and unload a modularized version of Speakup
#
case "$1" in
'start')
synth="$2"
if [ "$synth" = "sftsyn" ]; then
/usr/local/bin/speech-dispatcher
fi
echo "$synth" >/proc/speakup/synth_name
if [ "$synth" = "sftsyn" ]; then
sleep 1
/usr/local/bin/speechd_up
fi
/usr/local/bin/speakupconf load
;;
'stop')
synth=`cat /proc/speakup/synth_name`
if [ "$synth" = "softsynth" ]; then
synth="sftsyn"
killall -9 speechd_up
killall -9 speech-dispatcher
fi
echo "none" >/proc/speakup/synth_name
sleep 1
/sbin/modprobe -r "speakup_$synth"
;;
'restart')
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start "$2"
;;
*)
echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart <synth>" ;;
esac
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