You need to load the soft_synth module as root, like this: modprobe soft_synth BTW, I, like you, have a system with a doubletalk pc. My box is a 1.1GHz pentium III with 768 megs of ram. I am still running wheezy on my boxes, but see no reason why jessie shouldn't work for you. If I upgrade to jessie before you report on your experience, I'll post here on how that went for this particular box. I probably won't get around to upgrading my machines until a few months from now though. You should have no problem using speakup with espeak/espeakup on your machine. Your orca experience doesn't surprise me though. Good luck. Greg On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:20:56PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote: > All, > Trying to test speakup with espeak on wheezie. > Installed espeakup package > made /dev/softsynth as per instructions in speakupguide > > first there is no > /speakup/synth > closest I can find is > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth > when try, as root, to > echo soft >/sys/modules/speakup/parameters/synth > get permission denied > when run espeakup get > cannot open softhsynth, no such device. > /dev/softhsynth exists. > Oh yes, espeak is on system, works with orca > > Tom Fowle > wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx -- 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) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
