Hello Janina, Ok, I can do that. However... The make process is unsuccessful it says a bunch of erros example, ttsynth has no membername rait It has a total of 337 erros. So I'm not able to do the make process. Alonzo On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 19:20 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Georgina Joyce writes: > > > 1. When using the speakup connector, for ttsynth, I just coppy the make > > > file into /usr/local/bin/ > > > then creat an alias to start speak up. > > > No, no. > a. Take the .gz file you downloaded and uncompress it. This will create > a directory. > b. cd to that directory and type 'make' and press enter. > c. If all goes well, this creates a binary called spk-connect-ttsynth. > Copy or mv that file to /usr/local/bin. This is what you type to start > the connector talking. > d. But that's probably more than you want to type every time you start > speech. That's the reason to create a symbolic link to this file. So > that you can have something short to type to start speech. > > Note that the connector can only be built on a 32-bit system at this > time. > > > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf > It's /boot/grub/grub.conf > > > No, in an editor you open /boot/grub/menu.lst with root privillages. > > Well, Fedora provides menu.lst as a symbolic link to grub.conf. So, > consider this an example of the symbolic link in 1d above. > > > > You'll see a line that starts title, then possibly root then one > > starting with kernel. Something like this: > > > Here's an actual Fedora kernel statement. Note there's a horribly long > UID designator for the root argument. > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.11-97.spk.fc9.x86_64 ro > root=UUID=800328ee-c064-4bfb-ad96-d4086c8cc44e vga=0xF07 > speakup.synth=soft speakup.quiet=1 > > > I know that there's been some changes but I thought that the software > > synth was: > > > > speakup.synth=sftsyn > > Not any longer. It's now called 'soft' . See the above kernel statement > from grub.conf. > > Janina > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
