Hi Daniel, and everyone, Since my litetalk died a few weeks ago I have been forced to try harder to get speakup/softspeech working better. I have two amd64 machines and one intel core2duo notebook. Since softspeech stop talking frequently on all these machines (not just the 64-bit), I wanted an easy way to stop/restart softspeech at any time. Thanks to John Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>, I got his script for /etc/init.d/speechd-up along with his debian packages for both intell and amd64 speechd-up version 0.5: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/ You have to modify the script for the newer speakup/linux filesystem "/sys/module/speakup/parameters" as opposed to the older "/proc/speakup" path. This script also invokes speechd-up using 'nice' so you can adjust priority for your system. It makes it easy to stop, start, restart the speechd-up daemon. Thanks to all the people who have contributed to the speechd-up / speech-dispatcher project! --terry PS I got my new tripletalk synth yesterday, and it will serve for debugging early boot problems, but I am very impressed with the speech quality and responsiveness of the speechd-up/speech-dispatcher/espeak combination on my machines. I think I'll use soft speech for a lot of everyday work from now on. Thanks again to all! On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:23:43AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully got the module speakup_soft to start at boot-up, but > I can't get speechd-up to start at boot up. > Does anyone know how i can start speechd-up on boot up on debian? > I don't have an init script... So if anyone can tell me the best way of > starting it I would appreciate it. > > Cheers, > > -- > Daniel Dalton > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: 705-812-3744 E-mail: terry at wasaga.homeip.net Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Tired of technology? Check this out: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
