changing default speakup options at boot up

changing default speakup options at boot up

[Mick]

Hi, my name is mick, I am 17 and have just got in to Linux  half way 
through last year.
I started off with RedHat6.2 but now I am using Debian2.2 R2 with a 2.2.18 
kernel with speakup0.10 patched in to it.
Now, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about how I can change 
the default speed of speakup speach when it first boots up. I am aware that 
you can put scripts in your /etc/rc.boot and rc2.d and all that, but I want 
to have speakup talking right from the start at rate=9 (I have a double 
talk pc internal)
What I would really like it to do, is when lilo has loaded the kernel, it 
usually says "Double talk found linux version 2.2.18 
root@hydrogengcc......." and all that, but it is in about rate=5 or something.
What I would like it to do is straight away say: "Speakup inisialised" then 
for it to go straight to rate=9 then shut it up, unless I touch the 
keyboard (same as pressing the number pad enter key)
If anyone has any ideas on how this could be achieved, please email me 
"mick@blindcity.com"

I can right pretty good bash scripting, and understand about compiling 
kernels now, and I am a perfisiant linux user, I have to be because I run 
our home network, actually dad runs a business and he uses the network. but 
I do not know C or C++ and all that.
Thanks
Mick
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Re: changing default speakup options at boot up

[Geoff Shang]

Hi Mick:

Here's how you can lick the rate problem (this is where opensource comes
into its own).  Kirk, can you verify this before someone trashes their
system please?

Look in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/speakup_dtlk.c line 244 (or
somewhere nearby) - it should read:

 {"rate", "5", "\x01_s", (NUMERIC|HARD_DIRECT|USE_RANGE), "0,9"},

Now as far as I see it, changing the value here should change the default
for the synth without breaking anything.  You'll see all the other defaults
for the doubletalk PC here too.  For anyone else wanting to see these for
other synths, it seems to be right down the bottom of the appropriate C
file.

OK, make the change then recompile.  Note that you should only have to do
'make bzImage' or whatever your big one was, and it probably won't
recompile much (only speakup), unless you do 'make clean' in which case
it'll take ages as usual.

Please wait for Kirk to give this the thumbs up before using this (I'm not
a C programmer and definitely not a kernel hacker.

As for shutting up the synth automatically, maybe there is somewhere in the
speakup code where the flag for numpad-enter could be set manually after
speech detection.  Any ideas where this would be, Kirk?

Geoff.

Re: changing default speakup options at boot up

[Shaun Oliver]

I think I might take a look at that myself Geoff.
I'm in the middle of compiling kernel 2.4.4 at the moment with the cvs
version of speakup in it and might want to try that out one day.


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On Sun, 27 May 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Mick:
> 
> Here's how you can lick the rate problem (this is where opensource comes
> into its own).  Kirk, can you verify this before someone trashes their
> system please?
> 
> Look in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/speakup_dtlk.c line 244 (or
> somewhere nearby) - it should read:
> 
>  {"rate", "5", "\x01_s", (NUMERIC|HARD_DIRECT|USE_RANGE), "0,9"},
> 
> Now as far as I see it, changing the value here should change the default
> for the synth without breaking anything.  You'll see all the other defaults
> for the doubletalk PC here too.  For anyone else wanting to see these for
> other synths, it seems to be right down the bottom of the appropriate C
> file.
> 
> OK, make the change then recompile.  Note that you should only have to do
> 'make bzImage' or whatever your big one was, and it probably won't
> recompile much (only speakup), unless you do 'make clean' in which case
> it'll take ages as usual.
> 
> Please wait for Kirk to give this the thumbs up before using this (I'm not
> a C programmer and definitely not a kernel hacker.
> 
> As for shutting up the synth automatically, maybe there is somewhere in the
> speakup code where the flag for numpad-enter could be set manually after
> speech detection.  Any ideas where this would be, Kirk?
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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