From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta10.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.202]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYTVI-0005lY-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:38:16 -0400 Received: from beavis.lkwnny.adelphia.net ([69.166.61.22]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040610173745.FPL8065.mta10.adelphia.net@beavis.lkwnny.adelphia.net> for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:37:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:37:55 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Jacob Schmude To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-X-Sender: jschmude@mail.adelphia.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: speechd_up not working X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:38:16 -0000 Hi You did start speech-dispatcher, right? Also, check and make sure you still have a /dev/softsynth device with major 10 and minor 26. Try using spd-say to see if the problem is in speech-dispatcher or speechd-up. What synth are you trying to use? On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, ameer armaly wrote: aa> Hi all. aa> I'm trying to get software speech going after a while of not using it, aa> but I'm having some problems. aa> When I load the sftsyn module( which loads fine), and run speechd_up aa> absolutely nothing happens. aa> The logs say it started, I can hit backspace and here the pc speaker beep, aa> but it doesn't show any errors on the screen or in the logs. aa> Advice would be appriciated.