What I do for switching synths on the fly is run a shell script I wrote.
Note this is in a Slackware environment. I will attach it below. I
then built a couple aliases to shorten up the commands for the two
synths I frequently use. I Compile the ketnel with Speakup and my hard
synth, speakout statically and softsynth as a loadable module. When I
boot, speakout comes up automatically and I then switch synths as needed
later on.
----- Begin aliases -----
alias sft='/etc/rc.d/rc.speakup restart sftsyn'
alias spk='/etc/rc.d/rc.speakup restart spkout'
----- End aliases -----
----- Begin rc.speakup -----
#!/bin/sh
#
# Shel script to load and unload a modularized version of Speakup
#
case "$1" in
'start')
synth="$2"
if [ "$synth" = "sftsyn" ]; then
nice -5 /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher
fi
echo "$synth" >/proc/speakup/synth_name
if [ "$synth" = "sftsyn" ]; then
sleep 1
modprobe speakup_sftsyn
nice -n 10 /usr/bin/speechd-up
fi
/usr/local/bin/speakupconf load
;;
'stop')
synth=`cat /proc/speakup/synth_name`
if [ "$synth" = "sftsyn" ]; then
killall -9 speechd-up
killall -9 speech-dispatcher
fi
echo "none" >/proc/speakup/synth_name
sleep 1
/sbin/modprobe -r "speakup_$synth"
;;
'restart')
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start "$2"
;;
*)
echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart" ;;
esac
----- End rc.speakup -----
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:49:19AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> What you said didn't exactly work but this did:
>
> # apt-get install -y libglib2.0-dev
>
> So there are a couple of things that are left out of the instructions at
> http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd-up/speechd-up_1.html
>
> 1. As noted you need libglib.
>
> 2. You need g++
> # apt-get install -y g++
>
> 3. If you're running debian sid/testing, there are no libspeechd1 and
> libspeechd1-dev packages. You need libspeechd2 and libspeechd-dev.
>
> I have my linux box talking via the default software synth, festival, I
> think. All I need to do now is figure out how to get it to speak via DECtalk
> software and then I will be happy. Actually, I will have one more task after
> that: I'll want to have an easy way to use the software synth if the
> hardware synth is not connected to the serial port. I wonder if there is
> some way to auto-detect that? If not, I can do it manually. What I could do
> is have it default to the software synth and if the hardware synth is
> connected, after it boots and I log in, I can echo ltlk....
>
> The only problem with that is that if I have it default to the hardware
> synth, it starts talking earlier in the boot process.
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