From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FgngB-0001st-00 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 14:56:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 17936 invoked by uid 1000); 18 May 2006 11:56:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:56:28 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Trouble with speech dispatcher. Message-ID: <20060518185628.GA17870@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060517073516.GA10069@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <20060517205123.GA10884@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <1147900475.5510.18.camel@chopin> <20060517232344.GA11339@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <20060517234106.GA31492@localhost.localdomain> <20060518135129.GB2854@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060518135129.GB2854@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 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, 18 May 2006 18:56:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You don't need to echo sftsyn to /proc/speakup/synth_name, modprobing for the speakup_sftsyn module will do that for you automatically. Greg On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:51:31AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I checked this out further when I got home last night and I got speech > dispatcher working now. The modprobe did the trick. I modprobe it just > after echoing "sftsyn" to /proc/speakup/synth_name. All I need to do > now is see if I can optimize the sound of Espeak a little better; dunno > if I can really change much yet. I might have to refer to previous > comments on this. It seems a bit choppy but the basic pronunciation is > really clear and it seemed to be pretty responsive from the little I > played with it. Right now, I'm using the espeak-generic.conf that was > previously posted to this list. I understand there's a binary module or > something on speech dispatcher's CVS, is that true? Is it any better? > > It really doesn't sound too bad so far though. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEbMNc7s9z/XlyUyARAgNfAJ9KvUGUnqgUfvRi0EgZGtIsEX/1/gCfafjN YSQc3BnZBqWL+a0ia7ZLgC4= =Xim2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----