Getting speakup running with grml

Getting speakup running with grml

[David Sexton]

How do I get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd?
does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do
grml speakup synth=softsynth
does this prompt time out?

Re: Getting speakup running with grml

[Tyler Littlefield]

hello,
the prompt you want is
grml swspeak
it times out after 30 seconds (as far as I know).
when it gets booted (give it a couple minutes), type swspeak to bring 
speakup up.
HTH,


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Sexton" <david@rustytelephone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:05 PM
Subject: Getting speakup running with grml


> How do I get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd?
> does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do
> grml speakup synth=softsynth
> does this prompt time out?
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Re: Getting speakup running with grml

[Michael Whapples]

I assume you are wanting to use software speech output as your example 
is for the software synthesiser speakup module. I will briefly mention 
support for a hardware synth after the software speech option.

GRML has a special option for speakup with software speech, it is the 
swspeak boot option. So when your CD starts to spin you should get a 
boot prompt, now enter:
grml swspeak

and press enter, and then you will hear a message in the midst of the 
booting process saying that software speech has been enabled and that 
you need to type swpseak when booting finishes. You will get a speech 
message saying that booting has finished. Please note although both of 
these messages are given by flite, the default for speakup will be 
espeak once you get speakup running. Now when booting has finished (I 
find the message comes a few seconds before the machine really is ready) 
you then type:
swspeak

and press enter. Speakup should start speaking with espeak.

Now the swspeak option on the boot prompt can be given an option to say 
whether espeakup or speech-dispatcher should be used, if no value is 
given to the swspeak option it defaults to espeakup. Refer to the 
cheatcodes docs for GRML on how to specify whether to use espeakup or 
speech-dispatcher.

If you want to hear what happens while you boot the CD, then may be the 
beginning of my podcast for installing GRML with software speech would 
be useful. It can be found on 
http://www.mwhapples.plus.com/linux/audio/grml_install.ogg.

You can give GRML the speakup.synth option, so for me with my apollo 
synth I would type at the boot prompt:
grml speakup.synth=apollo

and press enter. Speakup should just start talking (it may not happen 
immediately as the script starting speakup is well into the boot process).

You should be aware although GRML supports the speakup.synth option, it 
doesn't support the other speakup options such as speakup.ser as GRML 
has speakup compiled as modules and it is a script checking for the 
speakup.synth option and loading the correct module.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, David Sexton wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">How do I 
> get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd?
> does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do
> grml speakup synth=softsynth
> does this prompt time out?
>
> </div>

RE: Getting speakup running with grml

[al Sten-Clanton]

In accord with what you say, hardware speech kicks in later than it used to.
I think it starts now at about the time Flite tells you "kernel should
support speakup now."

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 5:45 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Getting speakup running with grml

I assume you are wanting to use software speech output as your example is
for the software synthesiser speakup module. I will briefly mention support
for a hardware synth after the software speech option.

GRML has a special option for speakup with software speech, it is the
swspeak boot option. So when your CD starts to spin you should get a boot
prompt, now enter:
grml swspeak

and press enter, and then you will hear a message in the midst of the
booting process saying that software speech has been enabled and that you
need to type swpseak when booting finishes. You will get a speech message
saying that booting has finished. Please note although both of these
messages are given by flite, the default for speakup will be espeak once you
get speakup running. Now when booting has finished (I find the message comes
a few seconds before the machine really is ready) you then type:
swspeak

and press enter. Speakup should start speaking with espeak.

Now the swspeak option on the boot prompt can be given an option to say
whether espeakup or speech-dispatcher should be used, if no value is given
to the swspeak option it defaults to espeakup. Refer to the cheatcodes docs
for GRML on how to specify whether to use espeakup or speech-dispatcher.

If you want to hear what happens while you boot the CD, then may be the
beginning of my podcast for installing GRML with software speech would be
useful. It can be found on
http://www.mwhapples.plus.com/linux/audio/grml_install.ogg.

You can give GRML the speakup.synth option, so for me with my apollo synth I
would type at the boot prompt:
grml speakup.synth=apollo

and press enter. Speakup should just start talking (it may not happen
immediately as the script starting speakup is well into the boot process).

You should be aware although GRML supports the speakup.synth option, it
doesn't support the other speakup options such as speakup.ser as GRML has
speakup compiled as modules and it is a script checking for the
speakup.synth option and loading the correct module.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, David Sexton wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">How do I 
> get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd?
> does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do grml speakup 
> synth=softsynth does this prompt time out?
>
> </div>

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Re: Getting speakup running with grml

[Kerry Hoath]

You might want
grml swspeak=espeak

grml swspeak will use speech dispatcher and festival.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Sexton" <david@rustytelephone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 5:05 AM
Subject: Getting speakup running with grml


How do I get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd?
does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do
grml speakup synth=softsynth
does this prompt time out?
_______________________________________________
Speakup mailing list
Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Getting speakup running with grml

[Tyler Littlefield]

grml swspeak will not use festival.
Not unless you've got some way outdated grml

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Getting speakup running with grml


> You might want
> grml swspeak=espeak
>
> grml swspeak will use speech dispatcher and festival.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Sexton" <david@rustytelephone.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 5:05 AM
> Subject: Getting speakup running with grml
>
>
> How do I get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd?
> does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do
> grml speakup synth=softsynth
> does this prompt time out?
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup