I assume you are wanting to use software speech output as your example is for the software synthesiser speakup module. I will briefly mention support for a hardware synth after the software speech option. GRML has a special option for speakup with software speech, it is the swspeak boot option. So when your CD starts to spin you should get a boot prompt, now enter: grml swspeak and press enter, and then you will hear a message in the midst of the booting process saying that software speech has been enabled and that you need to type swpseak when booting finishes. You will get a speech message saying that booting has finished. Please note although both of these messages are given by flite, the default for speakup will be espeak once you get speakup running. Now when booting has finished (I find the message comes a few seconds before the machine really is ready) you then type: swspeak and press enter. Speakup should start speaking with espeak. Now the swspeak option on the boot prompt can be given an option to say whether espeakup or speech-dispatcher should be used, if no value is given to the swspeak option it defaults to espeakup. Refer to the cheatcodes docs for GRML on how to specify whether to use espeakup or speech-dispatcher. If you want to hear what happens while you boot the CD, then may be the beginning of my podcast for installing GRML with software speech would be useful. It can be found on http://www.mwhapples.plus.com/linux/audio/grml_install.ogg. You can give GRML the speakup.synth option, so for me with my apollo synth I would type at the boot prompt: grml speakup.synth=apollo and press enter. Speakup should just start talking (it may not happen immediately as the script starting speakup is well into the boot process). You should be aware although GRML supports the speakup.synth option, it doesn't support the other speakup options such as speakup.ser as GRML has speakup compiled as modules and it is a script checking for the speakup.synth option and loading the correct module. Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, David Sexton wrote: > <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">How do I > get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd? > does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do > grml speakup synth=softsynth > does this prompt time out? > > </div>
