Missing something important

Missing something important

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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I think I am missing something concerning this soft speech stuff.
What I am missing is something to read! I have everything
installed and tested, but need to be pointed to a basic
orientation to how to put the pieces together.

For instance: I guess I need to recompile my kernel with
everything connected with speakup set as modules, right? At the
moment I have speakup_ltlk and speakup_sftsyn compiled into the
kernel, but that evidently will never do for being able to switch
from one to the other. Where is there something to read about
that?

For another thing, Jacob and Steven are talking about a
configuration file called speechd.conf, the first I have heard of
it! I can't find any such file on my system. Where should I look,
and more importantly, what can I read? It is not mentioned in any
of the docs I have read, and none of these software pieces seems
to have any man pages.

Is there a write-up on software speech with speakup? I am
suffering from a "having come to the table after the meal has
begun" syndrome.

Chuck


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Re: Missing something important

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Chuck,
  Don't feel bad, I'm newer to this stuff than you probably are. So far as I can tell, there isn't yet a document around for putting these components together, so I'm just going with what I think I'm supposed to do. As for speechd.conf, you can find it in your source directory/config. Again, this wasn't in the documentation, I just went on a search for it. Also, even though Speechd-up supports the Dectalk, there's no mention of the module name in the config file. I'm guessing it's just called "dectalk" or "dtk-soft." All of these projects are in really early stages of development, so I can't say I'm surprised that no one has gotten around to writing thurrough documentation for speechd-up and using it with software speech.

Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
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Re: Missing something important

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Thanks, Steve.

I just found the speech-dispatcher documentation on their
website, so that's a pretty good start. I guess it will all fall
into place if we keep plugging away at it.

Chuck



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Re: Missing something important

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Actually, the dectalk module is called "dtk-generic". You have to add it
to the config file and if you want to use it you have to set it as default
module.

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Stephen Clower wrote:

> Hi Chuck,
>   Don't feel bad, I'm newer to this stuff than you probably are. So far as I can tell, there isn't yet a document around for putting these components together, so I'm just going with what I think I'm supposed to do. As for speechd.conf, you can find it in your source directory/config. Again, this wasn't in the documentation, I just went on a search for it. Also, even though Speechd-up supports the Dectalk, there's no mention of the module name in the config file. I'm guessing it's just called "dectalk" or "dtk-soft." All of these projects are in really early stages of development, so I can't say I'm surprised that no one has gotten around to writing thurrough documentation for speechd-up and using it with software speech.
>
> Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
> You can reach me by any of the following:
> E-Mail: steve@steve-audio.net
> MSN: steve@steve-audio.net
> AIM: AudioRabbit03
>
> You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
>
>
>
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Missing something important

[ameer armaly]

Hey chuck
Speechd.conf should be in /etc/speech-dispatcher, if not,
/usr/local/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf.
As to putting things together, here's a script to do it all.
This simply requires that you have sftsyn installed; module or builtin
doesn't matter.

#!/bin/sh
#software speech script
#start speech dispatcher
speech-dispatcher
#load speakup softsynth module:
#this requires that we first change to no synth in some cases, so we may
as well to be safe.
echo none >/proc/speakup/synth_name
echo sftsyn >/proc/speakup/synth_name
#start speechd_up
speechd_up

this should at least give you an idea of how things are structured; it's a
bit complex at first (i was planning to leave it until the summer), but
once you get it working it works like a charm.


On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

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> I think I am missing something concerning this soft speech stuff.
> What I am missing is something to read! I have everything
> installed and tested, but need to be pointed to a basic
> orientation to how to put the pieces together.
>
> For instance: I guess I need to recompile my kernel with
> everything connected with speakup set as modules, right? At the
> moment I have speakup_ltlk and speakup_sftsyn compiled into the
> kernel, but that evidently will never do for being able to switch
> from one to the other. Where is there something to read about
> that?
>
> For another thing, Jacob and Steven are talking about a
> configuration file called speechd.conf, the first I have heard of
> it! I can't find any such file on my system. Where should I look,
> and more importantly, what can I read? It is not mentioned in any
> of the docs I have read, and none of these software pieces seems
> to have any man pages.
>
> Is there a write-up on software speech with speakup? I am
> suffering from a "having come to the table after the meal has
> begun" syndrome.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> - --
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (62% of Full)
> My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
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Re: Missing something important

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Many thanks, Ameer. This will be a helpful starting point. And I
finally found the documentation for speech-dispatcher, so I have
something to chew on now.

Chuck




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Re: Missing something important

[Steve Holmes]

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I haven't really gotten started installing any of this new speech
stuff yet but it sounds quite fascenating and has been long awaited by
many - Speakup with software speech.  I've been saving many
informative e-mails on this subject so perhaps I can take on the task
of installing and running this stuff and build some concise
documentation to specifically address getting Speakup to work with the
Speech dispatcher.  Thanks, Amere for the startup script; that should
come in handy when I get there.  It also helps lay down some
groundwork necessary to get it all running.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 08:55:59PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
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> Many thanks, Ameer. This will be a helpful starting point. And I
> finally found the documentation for speech-dispatcher, so I have
> something to chew on now.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> 
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