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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:02:18PM +0100, John Robinson wrote: |
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> Hi everyone. I've just been testing the current Gentoo AMD64 live DVD |
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> available from |
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> http://mirrors.sfo1.gni.com/Gentoo/ten/livedvd-amd64-10.0-20090909-0915.iso and have no problems when booting into it with hardware speech. I am, however, unable to get software speech to work, try as I might. Typing 'gentoo speakup.synth=dectlk nox' makes my Dectalk USB set up like a Dectalk Express work every time. When I type 'gentoo speakup.synth=soft nox' at the boot prompt, I get no speech at all. I have not filed a bug about this, because it's very probably been resolved by someone on this list who knows much more about all this than I do! Any advice about how to get software speech working when I boot this live DVD would be very much appreciated. If you need any information about my computer system, please let me know. |
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> Yours sincerely, |
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Hi John, |
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Ok, try this: |
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Bring it up with hardware speech, then, try something like this: |
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espeak 'hello, this is a test.' |
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That should make espeak say 'hello, this is a test.' If that works, we |
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know that alsa is being set up correctly. Let me know if this works, |
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or, if it doesn't, it is important to know what the message is you get. |
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Thanks, |
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William Hubbs |
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gentoo accessibility team lead |
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williamh@g.o |
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