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Hi, |
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Anyone who hangs out at any of the rec.games.roguelike should recognize the |
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subject line. I've gotten 2004.2 up and running with |
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flite/speech-dispatcher/speechd-up and of course speakup! Now just before |
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networking comes up my computer starts talking with software speech. I will |
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post my experience here so that others may follow with less pain. I do not |
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cover installing alsa, but I do mention it and include a couple critical |
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reminders. |
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emerge flite (or the software synth of your choice, ymmv) |
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emerge speech-dispatcher |
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mkdir /etc/portage (if it doesn't exist) |
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echo "app-accessibility/speechd-up ~x86" > /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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(that unmasks speechd-up, optionally package.unmask may work now if the |
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keyword has been removed) |
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*important* make sure your kernel was compiled with softsynth available to |
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speakup as a loadable module) |
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mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26 |
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(defaults for speakup as it is currently) |
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Now, a brief explaination before I go into the next steps. flite and |
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speech-dispatcher need to be started, speakup needs to be set to use the |
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sftsyn synthesizer and finally speechd_up needs to be started. To make it |
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simple to start flite, I "borrowed" the speech-dispatcher script in |
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/etc/init.d. Edit it and basically replace speech-dispatcher (and various |
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flavors thereof) with flite (or possibly the synth of your choice). I named |
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this modified script fli. The name is important because scripts in init.d |
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are started in alphabetical order, with an exception. I can post my fli |
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script here, if anyone is interested. Now, back to procedures. I should |
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also include a note on alsa here. In short, you will need to have alsa (or |
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oss?) configured. Use amixer to set your channels volume and to unmute |
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**important** them. Then save your mixer settings using /usr/sbin/alsactl |
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save. |
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rc-update add alsasound boot |
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(Loads back mixer settings, etc, starts sound, sorta) |
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rc-update add speech-dispatcher boot |
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(runs speech dispatcher during boot phase) |
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rc-update add fli boot |
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(ditto for fli, see above note) |
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rc-update add speechd-up default |
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(puts speechd-up in the "default" scripts) |
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As a last step you need to create an entry in your boot loader configuration |
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to pass speakup_synth=sftsyn so that speakup will use the software |
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synthesizer. Good luck! |
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Regards, |
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Cecil Whitley |
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P.s. John, is there any problem with the fli script above? It works for me |
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but admittedly hasn't been stressed tested (fli stop, fli restart haven't |
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been tried). I don't have the actual script here, but I can mail it to you |
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from home later. |
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