Slackware distro and new Speakup disks

Slackware distro and new Speakup disks

[Dan Murphy]

Hello listers.
I just  speakup.s and speakup.i from the slackware ftp site.
I used rawrite to write the images to floppies under dos, but I'm not
sure on the syntax of the line used to select the synthesizer, and
also I'm not precisely sure when this should be done.
I thought since I am using a doubletalk that the line was something
like "speakup_synth=dtlk", but if this isn't correct, could someone
please let me know.
Congrats to Kirk and others for getting Speakup packaged into a
distribution like this.
thanks.

Re: Slackware distro and new Speakup disks

[The Electronicman Scott Berry]

what Doubletalk it depends which one internal or external?On 3 Jun 
2001, at 20:38, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Hello listers.
> I just  speakup.s and speakup.i from the slackware ftp site.
> I used rawrite to write the images to floppies under dos, but I'm not
> sure on the syntax of the line used to select the synthesizer, and
> also I'm not precisely sure when this should be done.
> I thought since I am using a doubletalk that the line was something
> like "speakup_synth=dtlk", but if this isn't correct, could someone
> please let me know.
> Congrats to Kirk and others for getting Speakup packaged into a
> distribution like this.
> thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Slackware distro and new Speakup disks

[Raul A. Gallegos]

This is correct.  The syntax is speakup_synth=dtlk

When you first boot the bootdisk wait for the disk to stop spinning.  At
this point it's at the lilo prompt.  It is waiting for you to press enter
or give it the image to boot plus parameters.  In this case you want to
type the following:

ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk

This will enable speakup using the doubletalk synthesizer.  Proceed to let
the kernel load and when it asks for the ramdisk put in the 2nd floppy
which you should have previously made from either color.gz or text.gz and
press enter.  I recommend using color.gz as the text.gz is not fully
working.


On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Hello listers.
> I just  speakup.s and speakup.i from the slackware ftp site.
> I used rawrite to write the images to floppies under dos, but I'm not
> sure on the syntax of the line used to select the synthesizer, and
> also I'm not precisely sure when this should be done.
> I thought since I am using a doubletalk that the line was something
> like "speakup_synth=dtlk", but if this isn't correct, could someone
> please let me know.
> Congrats to Kirk and others for getting Speakup packaged into a
> distribution like this.
> thanks.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Slackware distro and new Speakup disks

[Dan Murphy]

Thanks Raul.  I didn't know about the ramdisk part, but it works just
fine.