Hi, On 28.05.2009 18:23, William Hubbs wrote: [...] >> Doing this I had some trouble in setting up Speakup/Espeakup/espeak to >> speak my language - German - correctly. >> It ends up in adjusting /sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters, so >> that all letters, numbers and punctuation characters are spoken in a >> usual German way. > > Actually, there is an easier way to do this. As root, do the following: > > echo 1> /sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct > > This will allow espeak to handle character pronunciation instead of > speakup. This feature is still in its early stages, so let us know if > you have issues with it. > I saw this on an earlier message by you on this list and tried it without success: I get the message: "No such file or directory". What does this command do? I guess it creates a file? Hermann