Hi. Try reading the Speakup User's Guide from the Speakup site at http://linux-speakup.org. It's the third link down on the page. Gene >Trying to get text to speech working properly. I downloaded and >installed kernel-2.4.27-speakup using apt-get. As a result, >grep -i speakup /boot/config-2.4.27-speakup >shows this: >CONFIG_SPEAKUP=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_ACNTSA=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_ACNTPC=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_APOLLO=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_AUDPTR=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_BNS=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DECTLK=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DECEXT=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DECPC=3Dm >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DTLK=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_KEYPC=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_LTLK=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SFTSYN=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SPKOUT=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_TXPRT=3Dy >CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DEFAULT=3D"none" > >and menu.lst in /boot/grub says: >... >title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-speakup >root (hd0,0) >kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-speakup root=3D/dev/hda1 ro >initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-speakup >savedefault >boot >... > >And I cannot get sftsyn to work here. /proc/speakup/synth_name says >none and if I try to do >echo sftsyn > /proc/speakup/synth_name >it says speakup_sftsyn module is loaded but if I do >cat /proc/speakup/synth_name >it still says none. > >spd-say works fine. speech-dispatcher and speechd_up are installed. >Since sftsyn is compiled right into the kernel as the config file >suggests, how might I go about getting my system to use sftsyn so I >can get all data written to the console read off through the speakers? >According to the config file, it seems to want to use "none". Do I >have to download the kernel source and build from scratch? >--=20 >"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
