On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 03:06:34PM +0000, Keith Barrett wrote: > Finally, can I change speakup to a faster speech rate and make that > the default? > > I have tryed adding parameters to /etc/inid.d/rc.local but still get > the boot and error messages at the very slow rate, would like the > change as early as possible. I'm using squeeze here, so hope that you still have the speakup-tools package available to you in the debian repos. Assuming you do, setup speakup parameters like you want, do a speakupconf save as root, and then run speakupconf load in your boot scripts to load your settings. Whatever is in rc.local runs at the end of the boot process, so you'll want to do speakupconf load somewhere else that runs earlier. I unfortunately can't suggest an appropriate script to put it in. You might want to consider creating a boot script of your own that runs once the sound system is ready to go, and that invokes speakupconf load. I'm not able to answer your other questions, so hope someone else will be able to do so. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
