Hi, Yep echo now works, I reverted back from kernel 2.6.26 to 2.6.25, and when I get time I'll debug it. But changing permissions of speakup/parameters/synth and echoing from my script worked... Thanks for your help, Danny On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:43:32AM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote: > Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> writes: > > > 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 > > Yes, you can change synths by echoing the name to > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth > Echoing a value of none will stop speech. You also need to kill > speechd-up before changing synths. > This applies to espeakup too. > You probably don't have speech after changing synth from none to soft, > because your old daemon is running. It's reading from a file descriptor > which became invalid as soon as you changed synth from soft to none. > That's just a wild guess on my part. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
