Newbie to Linux, Speakup software speech question.

[Willem van der Walt]

Some tips.
Make sure that you have speach-dispatcher installed.
There should be an rpm for that.
You need to modprobe  the softsynth module and start speechd_up.
This is what gets things started on my fedora 3 box.
/usr/local/bin/speech-dispatcher -d
sleep 10
modprobe speakup_sftsyn

/usr/local/bin/speechd_up -d
I suggest that you set up Espeak as the synthesizer, but flite/festival 
can work too. there is an espeak package for fedora.
HTH, Willem



On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Nick.Adamson at generaldynamics.uk.com wrote:

> Hi All.
> 
> Firstly I'm a newbie to Linux. I'm a software developer in the UK for a
> military subcontractor and I've just been moved over to a project using
> Fedora Core 7 as the OS for a concept demonstrator.
> 
> I've installed the Speakup Modified distribution of Fedora Core 7 and I
> can get Orca to speak using festival however I can't seem to get Speakup
> to work.
> 
> I think my problem is that I'm not launching the software speech before
> loading Speakup.
> 
> 1. are there any software speech engines for Speakup installed as part
> of the standard install of Speakup.
> 2. if so can some one give me a list of commands to use to get Speakup
> to work.
> 
> I don't have a hardware synth so it's got be software.
> 
> Any help gratefully received.
> Cheers.
> Nick.
> 
> 
> Nick Adamson
> Software Engineer
> General Dynamics UK LTD
> 
> Email: nick.adamson at generaldynamics.uk.com
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