From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay0-omc2-s1.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.137]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HNb2M-0005VI-00 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:41:03 -0500 Received: from hotmail.com ([64.4.61.85]) by bay0-omc2-s1.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 12:40:32 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 12:40:32 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 71.111.71.248 by BAY102-DAV13.phx.gbl with DAV; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:40:29 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [71.111.71.248] X-Originating-Email: [z_kline@hotmail.com] X-Sender: z_kline@hotmail.com From: "Zachary Kline" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000201c75dc1$1540fb80$0301a8c0@cleverson> Subject: Re: spd neither crashes nor speak Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 12:40:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Mar 2007 20:40:32.0151 (UTC) FILETIME=[2FE7AA70:01C75DD4] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:41:03 -0000 Howdy, You can actually unmask the speechd-up, speech-dispatcher, and espeak packages safely. They're not going to cause problems. What you do is: echo "app-accessibility/speechd-up ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.use Repeat this with the other packages, making sure to get the syntax exactly right: two greater than signs, and a tilda before x86. Then emerge the packages, and it'll automatically build them for you. Finally, go into: /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf with a text editor--nano will do. Find the line that says 'defaultmodules flite', or defaultmodule, I forget. Change that to 'defaultmodule espeak-generic'. Now, save that file, go into /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules, and edit espeak-generic.conf. There's a section which mentions a program called 'speak'. Change that speak to espeak, and finally save the file, and add the programs to the appropriate runlevels like so: rc-update add speech-dispatcher boot rc-update add speechd-up default Reboot and you'll get speech. If you've any questions, let me know, I'll be glad to help. Yours, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cleverson" To: Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:22 AM Subject: spd neither crashes nor speak Hello all About a year ago, I started using Oralux Linux. Recently, I decided to install Gentoo Linux, mainly to learn more how the system works. Besides it, I still use MS-Windows for some tasks. I've just finished installing Gentoo, and currently I'm having a problem to get Speakup to speak via speech-dispatcher using ESpeak speech synthesiser. I had to install ESpeak, Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from source, as they are not available from the stable branch of Gentoo's repository. Now, I can use eSpeak as a standalone synthesiser, but speech-dispatcher doesn't speak anything through eSpeak. For example, when I run the command: espeak -vpt "teste." it speaks fine. Then I run: speech-dispatcher and it starts fine. I am sure that speech-dispatcher doesn't report errors, because I've set log level to 4 and observed that it launches espeak-generic OK. But when I run for test: spd-say "test." it doesn't report errors, but doesn't speak anything at all. I am sure that my sound card is working correctly, because eSpeak speaks well when runing as standalone, as I already said. But neither "spd-say" from speech-dispatcher speaks anything, nor speechd-up does it... Do you have any tip that could help me please? Thanks, Cleverson "Be realistic; ask for the impossible." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup