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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] speakup on gentoo
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:36:45
Message-Id: 20080424133640.GA30440@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] speakup on gentoo by Robert Grieve
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4 Hi Robert,
5
6 I just did an update to the speechd-up ebuild in the tree which should
7 fix the issues you mentioned. The new version of speechd-up is
8 speechd-up-0.4-r3. Emerge this and let me know how it works for you.
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12 On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:37:22PM +1200, Robert Grieve wrote:
13 > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 23:41 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
14 >
15 > > Speechd-up is still the way to link software speech to speakup.
16 > > Just do an emerge speechd-up to install the packages. The default
17 > > synthesizer is espeak, and it and speech dispatcher will be installed as
18 > > dependencies of speechd-up. Once you have everything emerged, add
19 > > speech-dispatcher and speechd-up to your default runlevel.
20 > >
21 > > Yes, the files that were in /proc/speakup have been moved to
22 > > /sys/module/speakup/parameters.
23 >
24 > In order to get this working with the new system I had to do a little
25 > hacking in /etc/init.d/speechdup.
26 >
27 > Specifically at top level
28 > SPEAKUPDIR=/sys/module/speakup/parameters # Not /proc/speakup
29 >
30 > and in load_speakup()
31 >
32 > echo soft > ${SPEAKUPDIR}/synth #which used to read echo sftsyn
33 >
34 > I have no idea how, but people who want this to work for kernels
35 > >=gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r1 need these in /etc/init.d/speechd-up,
36 > and people who want the pre 2.6.25 need the way it is as of this morning
37 > Which had the following at the top if it helps.
38 >
39 > $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-accessibility/speechd-up/files/speechd-up.rc,v 1.6 2007/05/30 04:05:27 williamh Exp $
40 >
41 > Hope this is more helpful than annoying.
42 > Best,
43 > Robert
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48 William Hubbs
49 gentoo accessibility team lead
50 williamh@g.o
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