udev rule to start speakup for tripletalk

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Wed Nov 17 16:40:26 UTC 2010


There is an advantage to having a tripletalk even though speakup doesn't 
support USB speech synthesizers. If you want to start speakup automatically 
when you plug in your tripletalk, you can create a udev rule to do that.

On a debian system, udev rules are in /etc/udev/rules.d. I believe the 
convention is to put local rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules. Create 
the file if it doesn't exist and add this line to it:

ATTR{product}=="Triple-Talk USB", RUN="/sbin/modprobe speakup_ltlk"

You don't have to connect the serial line first but it works best that way. 
Connect the serial line and then when you plug in the USB cable, it will 
start speakup and say, "litetalk found". 




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