Congrats on getting the install finished. Putting the speakup_synth=sftsyn in grub.conf loads the Speakup software speech support module, but doesn't start the Speakup Connector. If you want that starting automatically, you probably need to reference it in your /etc/rc.local. Please note that you may not want to do that for reasons of preserving access to audio for ordinary user accounts. It's maddening, but the audio environment continues suboptimal, imho, on Fedora in terms of who has access to the aduio device. Here's what I do in order to allow 'janina' to access audio while Speakup Connector also runs: 1.) Login on one console as janina. 2.) Start playing some longish audio file as janina in that console. 3.) Open another console and start the Speakup Connector. Thereafter, I have both speech via Speakup plus access to audio for mplayer, ecasound, etc., etc. Janina PS: To be able to open that second console and start the Connector as 'janina,' I have 'chown janina /dev/softsynth' in my rc.local. Don Raikes writes: > Hello, > > I got the speakupified version of warewolf installed this morning, and installed ttsynth and spk-connector on the system. > > I followed the manual steps for getting speakup to start and it works just fine. > > I added the sftsyn to the end of my kernel line in grub.conf, but speakup does not start on boot. Ihave to manually start it. > > Is there something else I need to do since I a m using a software synthesizer? > > > > don raikes | Accessibility Specialist > Phone: (520) 271-7608 | Fax: (520) 744-0826 | Mobile: (520) 271-7608 > Oracle Application Server QA > | , > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
