-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve, I think Janina was asking about switching among several kinds of software synths, such as flite to dectalk, dectalk to cepstral, etc. Unless I misread her. Which I have been known to do, actually. Chuck On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Steve Holmes wrote: > 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. <snip> - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (75% of Full) My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQMRBwDVdG8M9x9tGAQIDZQP9FqHy8ZZ3OwxzzbIZg5QsU2b/1EW0e1bT VhPqtJqE61s9BrBQm1D2WuWo8AAiCK452rZchG2/JEGcHhWVqIDG2LUdC1GBAaHf rfyUDJGTxzeaQW7GHORJNc8nn1XP00qkdPvCd5rzmWrzNR9qlglavRQ2SPS9eu5S eyooMU/tVEM= =hbp1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----