Hey Zack, Thanks for the reply. I thought you could echo none or your synth name to the synth file in the sys file system, however, I can kill speech, but can't get it back... I'll have to try the latest speakup out of guit when I get time and see if I can do it with this... Cheers, Danny On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:18:02PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Danny, > I'm not a speakup developer, so one of them should feel free to > correct me if I'm wrong. > However, in the version of speakup I have, 3.0.3, there isn't a way to > do this from the CLI. > The only way I'm aware of is to use the keyboard command to kill > speakup--think it's the "print screen" key? > I've just been looking around the /sys/modules/speakup/parameters > directory and not found anything obvious. > Hope this helps, > Zack. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Dalton" > <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> > To: "Speakup" <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:59 PM > Subject: killing speech from cli > > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a command line argument or something I can echo to speakup to >> kill speech? And is there one to echo to get speakup back up talking >> again? I'm using software speech with speechd. I'm wanting a command to >> turn speech on and off so I can call this from within a script. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Danny >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup