On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:28:18AM -0700, David Hoff Jr wrote: > I am new to Linux & Speakup. I'm confused about synthasizers. I do not > have an external synthasizer but I have purchased and installed Speakup > Modified Fedora 7 i386, but without specifying a speach synthasizer. Hi David, The latest kernel/SpeakUP releases support software synthesizers with the appropriate services installed, but you won't get the full benefits of SpeakUP and a hardware synthesizer. SpeakUP is essentially designed to begin speaking as soon as the kernel is loaded, giving full startup to shutdown access to what is going on. Software synthesizers need to be loaded later in the boot process, and if something happens prior to speech startup, you're essentially S.O.L., unless you can telnet or ssh into your system remotely. Examine the docs on the installation CD for instructions on booting SpeakUP with a software synthesizer. You seem to have an earlier release, and I'm not sure software synthesis with SpeakUP is supported. Check in at" http://speakupmodified.org/ I'm really surprised you haven't received an answer on this yet from the Fedora folks I'm running Debian, myself, and know little about Fedora. HTH, Michael
