Alonzo wrote: > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf I beleive it's in /boot. To specify > the software speech at boot do I just scroll to the end of the file and > type speakup_synth=sftsynth then restart the computer and hope to have > speech at boot time? No, this only makes the speakup's output available to software speech, but you need speechd-up to actually make use of this output and deliver it to a software speech synthesizer through Speech Dispatcher. See http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-up. > 1 When using the graphical end of Fedora in Gnome, I'm unable to hear > sound and speech at the same time. That is, if I play try listening to > an mp3, I would have to kill speech before hearing music. I tried > following the instructions to get espeak to work along side orca on the > wiki page, but it does not work. please advise on that as well. This can be solved when using Speech Dispatcher instead of Gnome Speech with Orca. See http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher for more information. Best regards, Tomas
