From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5D51098A for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:24:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so2496195bwz.17 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.156.213 with SMTP id y21mr55180bkw.109.1253568276832; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (74-60-156-145.mrc.clearwire-dns.net [74.60.156.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e17sm33145fke.2.2009.09.21.14.24.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:39 -0700 From: Gaijin To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: How to use espeakup, revisited... Message-ID: <20090921212439.GA28694@gnuked.clearwire.net> References: <20090921003109.GA18755@gnuked.clearwire.net> <20090921193613.GA26455@romuald.net.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090921193613.GA26455@romuald.net.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:24:38 -0000 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:36:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Why are you putting the rmmod line above into rc.local? Because I like starting the puter off with the hardware synth, then switch over when the system is ready to go. That way I can tell what the heck is happening if something goes wrong with the conglomeration of other programs needed to have software voice synthesis. Why else spend $$$ on a hardware synthesizer so the system isn't bogged down even more, doing voices in software? I'm just using the software synth so I can eventually make my puter sound like a gurl...when they get around to making a Martha Harmon-Pardee voice for espeak. If I could make the hardware synth sound female, I'd do that and keep the CPU cycles for other jobs. I also want something working in case the software synth goes down for some reason. Most of the code is still in alpha, so it seems pretty reasonable to keep a backup synthesizer available.> > You seem to have figured it out easily enough, along with most > everyone else it seems. If you really feel though that this should be > documented somewhere, then there's nothing stopping you from contributing. What does it look like I'm doing? My name isn't on the package maintainer's list. I only managed it because I knew about rc.local and a little something about loading and unloading modules, which people new to linux wouldn't know, obviously. Nor would they know to look in /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/extra/speakup for the synth module names, understand a little bash scripting, or which does what. And to top it off, it suggests right in the espeakup man page to mention it on the mailing list, so get off my back. I still haven't figured out why my puter stopped beeping at me when I press the wrong key, so it's evident that all the bugs in Squeeze haven't been worked out yet. Without sighted assistance to call on late at night after an upgrade when things stop working, it only seems reasonable to insure I have a backup option ready to go, and the documentation at hand. If suggesting contributions here in the mailing list is politically uncorrect, just let me know so I can killfile you for being an Elitist Putz. I believe it's also good to rehash how to do things while SpeakUP is still in a state of flux and things change from one day to the next, especially for those of us who find the web to be the clunkiest interface for the visually impared that was ever created. Anyway, we don't need people like you trying to censor sources of information the rest of us may desperately need. Michael -- Linux User: 177869 Powered by Intel