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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 10:00 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> Hi,
> What would be the advantage of using espeakup in place  of the espeak, 
> speech-dispatcher, speechd-up and speakup configuration?
Not fully sure, other than it may simplify the chain to create speech
output. I am not sure if it uses OSS or alsa for output, or if output
driver is configurable.
> Does espeakup support change of speech language in any way?
I would have expected it as it is specific for espeak, but when I had a
look at the value of /sys/modules/speakup/parameters/lang it comes up
with an error, whereas when I do it for my apollo it gives me the value
1.
> TIA, Willem
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, William Hubbs wrote:
> 
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> > All,
> > 
> > I am pleased to announce the release of espeakup-0.1.  Espeakup is a
> > connector which will allow you to use espeak as your software
> > synthesizer with speakup.
> > 
> > Kirk will be posting shortly a location where you can get a tarball of
> > this release.
> > 
> > If you are comfortable working with git, you can get a read only copy of
> > the repository by doing
> > 
> > git clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/espeakup.git
> > 
> > Also, a version of this program will be available shortly in the contrib
> > directory of the speakup git repository and official releases will be
> > made available as packages I'm sure.
> > 
> > If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to let me
> > know.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > William
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