If you just use espeak, I think you can 'sudo apt-get remove speechd-up', and 'sudo apt-get install espeakup'. That tends to be how most people use it, I think. I use speechd-up, because I love the voxin ibmtts voice for speech-dispatcher. Bill On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Berk? Norbert <berko.norbert at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have troubles with configuring speakup. > The install works fine under 9.10 with Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from > Lucid, and i am pleased with collaboration of Pulseaudio and Orca. I start > Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up on system-wide-daemon. > What shall i do to not to say "capital" at the beginning of a word? > I configured the rate and pitch, and saved with speakupconf, and now it > loads my settings at every system boot. > I would like to hear only those punctuations like in Orca. For example not > to say colon, dash, comma or period at the end of a sentence. I found in > /etc/speakup the following files: punct_all, punct_some, punct_none, > punct_level. How can i modify my settings? > My last question would be that is it possible, to use Espeakup with speakup > if the Pulseaudio is enabled on system-wide-daemon? The speech-dispatcher is > running too system-wide-daemon according to Bill Cox's instructions. > May it help that compile an espeak with Pulseaudio support? Cause i just use > this synthesizer. > > Thanks for your answer > > Regards, > > Norbert > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >