Hi Sean. You need to have speech-dispatcher up and running before anything else can happen. You need to have it configured to work with flite by editing your /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf file, or whatever your distro's equivalent is. After you have speech-dispatcher installed and working correctly, echo sftsyn to the /proc/speakup/synth_name proc entry. Then run speechd_up. Flite should start talking. Good luck. Gene > After installing the right version of automake and the appropriate glib2 >packages, I was able to install speechd-up. My question is what exactly is >supposed to happen when you run speechd_up -s ? When I tried running as a >normal user, It told me I didn't have access to the /var/run/speechd_up >directory. Sinse I didn't know what kind of group/user permissions this >directory should have, I ran it as root. It didn't give me any errors but >didn't say anything either to speakup or to the soundcard. When I do modprobe >speakup_sftsyn, something happens because my braillelite stops speaking, but >there is no voice. Following Thomas's howto, I created the softsynth device a nd >I did install flite. What am I missing here? What should I do to get speakup >working with speechd-up? Right now, I'm not trying to make it work at bootup, >just want it working if I want to change synths to flite. My kernel is acusto m >2.4.27 with speakup cvs version from Dec 28, 2004. Speakup is compiled direct ly >into the kernel and all modules which are synths are builtin except for the >sftsyn module > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
