Re: intro and questions

[Alonzo <mariachiac@aim.com>]

Hello Janina,

I've looked at hte new files you've posted. The only file I found
regarding ttsynth and speakup was spk-connect-ttsynth-1.1.tar.gz
I downloded the file and found hte same results. I'm unable to go
through the make process. You mention that if hte make process does not
work, for me to build my own binary. I'm not exactly sure how to do
this. So if there is a website explaining how to use .c files then I
would like to take al ook at it to familiarize myself with these types
of files. I get the same erros, make error1. It complains that htere is
no value for pitch, rait, memberHandle, and a hundred other errors.
Sorry for being quite new at this types of things. I used linux a long
time ago, but have forgotten lot's of what has to be done. I enjoy
learning though and using the operating system. I have no windows so I'm
lucky I was able to install linux to use it.

Alonzo


On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 19:20 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Georgina Joyce writes:
> > > 1. When using the speakup connector, for ttsynth, I just coppy the make
> > > file into /usr/local/bin/
> > > then creat an alias to start speak up.
> 
> 
> No, no. 
> a. Take the .gz file you downloaded and uncompress it. This will create
> a directory.
> b. cd to that directory and type 'make' and press enter.
> c. If all goes well, this creates a binary called spk-connect-ttsynth.
> Copy or mv that file to /usr/local/bin. This is what you type to start
> the connector talking.
> d. But that's probably more than you want to type every time you start
> speech. That's the reason to create a symbolic link to this file. So
> that you can have something short to type to start speech.
> 
> Note that the connector can only be built on a 32-bit system at this
> time.
> > > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf
> It's /boot/grub/grub.conf
> 
> > No, in an editor you open /boot/grub/menu.lst with root privillages.
> 
> Well, Fedora provides menu.lst as a symbolic link to grub.conf. So,
> consider this an example of the symbolic link in 1d above.
> 
> 
> > You'll see a line that starts title, then possibly root then one
> > starting with kernel.  Something like this:
> > 
> Here's an actual Fedora kernel statement. Note there's a horribly long
> UID designator for the root argument.
> 
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.11-97.spk.fc9.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=800328ee-c064-4bfb-ad96-d4086c8cc44e vga=0xF07
> speakup.synth=soft speakup.quiet=1
> 
> > I know that there's been some changes but I thought that the software
> > synth was:
> > 
> > speakup.synth=sftsyn
> 
> Not any longer. It's now called 'soft' . See the above kernel statement
> from grub.conf.
> 
> Janina
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