SV: help with fun stuff at boot up

Fri Apr 8 09:08:15 UTC 2005

Hello!
Brltty has support for the festival text to speech synthesizer.
It used to have support for ibm viavoice, but since it doesn't work any longer I don't know if dave has removed that support.

/kristoffer
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 does brltty use a software sinthetizer?

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From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: help with fun stuff at boot up

> I'll tell you how I do something very like what you specify.
>
> /etc/rc.local is your friend.
>
> In my case, I also use ~/.bashrc
>
> I find the audio files I want to use and stick them in /boot. I have
> names like /boot/boot.wav, /boot/login.wav, etc. That way, I can change
> sounds without editing anything. All I need do is copy the new sound to
> the existing filename.
>
> Now, in rc.local:
>
> aplay /boot/boot.wav
>
> This is also where you can launch any global apps you want to launch.
>
> In ~/.bashrc:
>
> aplay /boot/login.wav
>
> Why? Because sometimes I boot without speech, especially on my laptop,
> and I want to know without additional action on my part that I've
> successfully logged in.
>
> Put any additional per console login apps you want in ~/.bashrc or
> ~/.bash_profile.
>
> Gustafsson Kristoffer (elev) writes:
>> Hello!
>> I need some help with getting some fun when booting linux.
>> Firstly I want to have a nice startup and shutdown sound, and secondly I 
>> want to have brltty automatically loaded, and third I want to have linux 
>> save the sound settings I have made when I shut down.
>> I'm   using fedora core 2.
>> how shall I do?
>> /kristoffer
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