I ran the command at my terminal, that is a zero at the end of the command right? When I ran the command my cursor dropped down a line and I typed some words into my computer , and hit return, but my doubletalk didn't say anything. In the command I write "text" right, does it sound like the command is working? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 10, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Gaijin <gaijin at clearwire.net> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:16:29PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote: >> Is there a string of text, like >> "hello" >> that you can use to send text out for testing? >> I do this in DOS, for testing synthesizers, but I don't know how to >> do it in >> Unix/Linux. > > The command would be: > > echo "text" > /dev/ttyS0 > > ...but the hal daemon might get in the way. > > Michael >> >> E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.1.441) >> Database version: 6.13000 >> http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Linux User: 177869 Powered by > Intel > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup