From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IBa2T-0008Us-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:43:45 -0400 Received: from ulam.math.wisc.edu (ulam.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.245]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510AE74361 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:43:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vv507j (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ulam.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B592BD9B for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:43:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <065801c7ca2c$46719890$4ba65c90@vv507j> From: "John Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Starting software speech automatically in debian Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:43:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:43:45 -0000 I recently updated the debian init script I wrote to start software speech at boot if a hardware synth is not configured. ie. It supposedly checks if speakup is speaking through a hardware synth and if not, starts software speech. See: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/stuff/softsynth.html Instead of requiring 2 scripts, it's just one. And now to switch from your hardware synth to software speech, you can say: # /etc/init.d/speechd-up restart Well, at least it works on my system. -- John Heim jheim@math.wisc.edu / 608-263-4189 If you are blind and you use linux, please subscribe to blinux-list@redhat.com