killing speech from cli

killing speech from cli

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

Is there a command line argument or something I can echo to speakup to
kill speech? And is there one to echo to get speakup back up talking
again? I'm using software speech with speechd. I'm wanting a command to
turn speech on and off so I can call this from within a script.

Thanks,

Danny

Re: killing speech from cli

[Zachary Kline]

Hi Danny,
    I'm not a speakup developer, so one of them should feel free to correct 
me if I'm wrong.
    However, in the version of speakup I have, 3.0.3, there isn't a way to 
do this from the CLI.
    The only way I'm aware of is to use the keyboard command to kill 
speakup--think it's the "print screen" key?
    I've just been looking around the /sys/modules/speakup/parameters 
directory and not found anything obvious.
Hope this helps,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>
To: "Speakup" <Speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:59 PM
Subject: killing speech from cli


> Hi,
>
> Is there a command line argument or something I can echo to speakup to
> kill speech? And is there one to echo to get speakup back up talking
> again? I'm using software speech with speechd. I'm wanting a command to
> turn speech on and off so I can call this from within a script.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Danny
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> 

Re: killing speech from cli

[Nick Stockton]

I wish there was one as well.  It would make speech interupts in my mud 
client alot easier.  At the moment I have to sent a control code to my 
doubletalk while it's speaking which doesn't always work if speakup is still 
sending text to it.

Nick Stockton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <klinez@onid.orst.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: killing speech from cli


> Hi Danny,
>    I'm not a speakup developer, so one of them should feel free to correct 
> me if I'm wrong.
>    However, in the version of speakup I have, 3.0.3, there isn't a way to 
> do this from the CLI.
>    The only way I'm aware of is to use the keyboard command to kill 
> speakup--think it's the "print screen" key?
>    I've just been looking around the /sys/modules/speakup/parameters 
> directory and not found anything obvious.
> Hope this helps,
> Zack.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>
> To: "Speakup" <Speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:59 PM
> Subject: killing speech from cli
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a command line argument or something I can echo to speakup to
>> kill speech? And is there one to echo to get speakup back up talking
>> again? I'm using software speech with speechd. I'm wanting a command to
>> turn speech on and off so I can call this from within a script.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Danny
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>>
>
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Re: killing speech from cli

[Daniel Dalton]

Hey Zack,

Thanks for the reply. I thought you could echo none or your synth name
to the synth file in the sys file system, however, I can kill speech, but
can't get it back... I'll have to try the latest speakup out of guit
when I get time and see if I can do it with this...

Cheers,

Danny


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:18:02PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi Danny,
>    I'm not a speakup developer, so one of them should feel free to 
> correct me if I'm wrong.
>    However, in the version of speakup I have, 3.0.3, there isn't a way to 
> do this from the CLI.
>    The only way I'm aware of is to use the keyboard command to kill  
> speakup--think it's the "print screen" key?
>    I've just been looking around the /sys/modules/speakup/parameters  
> directory and not found anything obvious.
> Hope this helps,
> Zack.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Dalton" 
> <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>
> To: "Speakup" <Speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:59 PM
> Subject: killing speech from cli
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a command line argument or something I can echo to speakup to
>> kill speech? And is there one to echo to get speakup back up talking
>> again? I'm using software speech with speechd. I'm wanting a command to
>> turn speech on and off so I can call this from within a script.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Danny
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: killing speech from cli

[Gaijin]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:59:10PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Is there a command line argument or something I can echo to speakup to
> kill speech? And is there one to echo to get speakup back up talking

	While I haven't tried it myself, I would assume rmmod and
instmod would work to unload and reload the module, if it's the loadable
type.  Maybe something like:

#!/bin/sh
rmmod (your-speakup-module
echo "SpeakUP has been unloaded."
instmod <your-speakup-module>
echo "SpeakUP module has been loaded."

...to test this out.  HTH,

			Michael

Re: killing speech from cli

[Chris Brannon]

Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> writes:

> Thanks for the reply. I thought you could echo none or your synth name
> to the synth file in the sys file system, however, I can kill speech, but
> can't get it back... I'll have to try the latest speakup out of guit

Yes, you can change synths by echoing the name to
/sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth
Echoing a value of none will stop speech.  You also need to kill
speechd-up before changing synths.
This applies to espeakup too.
You probably don't have speech after changing synth from none to soft,
because your old daemon is running.  It's reading from a file descriptor
which became invalid as soon as you changed synth from soft to none.
That's just a wild guess on my part.

-- Chris

Re: killing speech from cli

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

The scripts speakwith and talkwith can be called from another script to
make the transition from none to soft smoothly.


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:43:32AM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for the reply. I thought you could echo none or your synth name
> > to the synth file in the sys file system, however, I can kill speech, but
> > can't get it back... I'll have to try the latest speakup out of guit
> 
> Yes, you can change synths by echoing the name to
> /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth
> Echoing a value of none will stop speech.  You also need to kill
> speechd-up before changing synths.
> This applies to espeakup too.
> You probably don't have speech after changing synth from none to soft,
> because your old daemon is running.  It's reading from a file descriptor
> which became invalid as soon as you changed synth from soft to none.
> That's just a wild guess on my part.
> 
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: killing speech from cli

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

Yep echo now works, I reverted back from kernel 2.6.26 to 2.6.25, and
when I get time I'll debug it. But changing permissions of
speakup/parameters/synth and echoing from my script worked...

Thanks for your help,

Danny


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:43:32AM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for the reply. I thought you could echo none or your synth name
> > to the synth file in the sys file system, however, I can kill speech, but
> > can't get it back... I'll have to try the latest speakup out of guit
> 
> Yes, you can change synths by echoing the name to
> /sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth
> Echoing a value of none will stop speech.  You also need to kill
> speechd-up before changing synths.
> This applies to espeakup too.
> You probably don't have speech after changing synth from none to soft,
> because your old daemon is running.  It's reading from a file descriptor
> which became invalid as soon as you changed synth from soft to none.
> That's just a wild guess on my part.
> 
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: killing speech from cli

[Daniel Dalton]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:53:20AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> The scripts speakwith and talkwith can be called from another script to
> make the transition from none to soft smoothly.

Sorry, I must have missed this mail... Where can I obtain these scripts?

Thanks,

Daniel

Re: killing speech from cli

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Daniel,

They are in the extras directory of the speakup directory created by
git.

Also on my web site.

There are two of them: speakwith works with speech-dispatcher, talkwith
works with espeakup.

Chuck

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:44:29PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:53:20AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > The scripts speakwith and talkwith can be called from another script to
> > make the transition from none to soft smoothly.
> 
> Sorry, I must have missed this mail... Where can I obtain these scripts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Daniel
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: killing speech from cli

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

I don't see an extras directory, what git url should i be using?

Thanks,

Danny


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:40:08AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> They are in the extras directory of the speakup directory created by
> git.
> 
> Also on my web site.
> 
> There are two of them: speakwith works with speech-dispatcher, talkwith
> works with espeakup.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:44:29PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:53:20AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > The scripts speakwith and talkwith can be called from another script to
> > > make the transition from none to soft smoothly.
> > 
> > Sorry, I must have missed this mail... Where can I obtain these scripts?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Daniel
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
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Re: killing speech from cli

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:52:06AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't see an extras directory, what git url should i be using?

It's in my signature, just past the moon.

Chuck


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Re: killing speech from cli

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Woops! I misread your message. My web site is not a git repository, but
you can find the scripts on it.


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:01:23PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:52:06AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't see an extras directory, what git url should i be using?
> 
> It's in my signature, just past the moon.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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