Howdy, You can actually unmask the speechd-up, speech-dispatcher, and espeak packages safely. They're not going to cause problems. What you do is: echo "app-accessibility/speechd-up ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.use Repeat this with the other packages, making sure to get the syntax exactly right: two greater than signs, and a tilda before x86. Then emerge the packages, and it'll automatically build them for you. Finally, go into: /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf with a text editor--nano will do. Find the line that says 'defaultmodules flite', or defaultmodule, I forget. Change that to 'defaultmodule espeak-generic'. Now, save that file, go into /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules, and edit espeak-generic.conf. There's a section which mentions a program called 'speak'. Change that speak to espeak, and finally save the file, and add the programs to the appropriate runlevels like so: rc-update add speech-dispatcher boot rc-update add speechd-up default Reboot and you'll get speech. If you've any questions, let me know, I'll be glad to help. Yours, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cleverson" <clever92000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:22 AM Subject: spd neither crashes nor speak Hello all About a year ago, I started using Oralux Linux. Recently, I decided to install Gentoo Linux, mainly to learn more how the system works. Besides it, I still use MS-Windows for some tasks. I've just finished installing Gentoo, and currently I'm having a problem to get Speakup to speak via speech-dispatcher using ESpeak speech synthesiser. I had to install ESpeak, Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from source, as they are not available from the stable branch of Gentoo's repository. Now, I can use eSpeak as a standalone synthesiser, but speech-dispatcher doesn't speak anything through eSpeak. For example, when I run the command: espeak -vpt "teste." it speaks fine. Then I run: speech-dispatcher and it starts fine. I am sure that speech-dispatcher doesn't report errors, because I've set log level to 4 and observed that it launches espeak-generic OK. But when I run for test: spd-say "test." it doesn't report errors, but doesn't speak anything at all. I am sure that my sound card is working correctly, because eSpeak speaks well when runing as standalone, as I already said. But neither "spd-say" from speech-dispatcher speaks anything, nor speechd-up does it... Do you have any tip that could help me please? Thanks, Cleverson "Be realistic; ask for the impossible." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor op??o para voc?! Experimente j? e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
