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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 04:41:47
Message-Id: 20080424044145.GA28556@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] speakup on gentoo by Robert Grieve
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4 Hi Robert,
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6 Speechd-up is still the way to link software speech to speakup.
7 Just do an emerge speechd-up to install the packages. The default
8 synthesizer is espeak, and it and speech dispatcher will be installed as
9 dependencies of speechd-up. Once you have everything emerged, add
10 speech-dispatcher and speechd-up to your default runlevel.
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12 Yes, the files that were in /proc/speakup have been moved to
13 /sys/module/speakup/parameters.
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15 I will also look into modifying the speakup ebuild to install
16 documentation.
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19 On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:07:57PM +1200, Robert Grieve wrote:
20 > Thanks for the great new packge.
21 >
22 > Owing to the amount of change in how this is set up,
23 > I wonder if some docs need to be more actively published.
24 > How much chance is there of altering the ebuild so we get some of the
25 > documentation that used to live under /usr/linux/Documentation/speakup
26 > under /usr/share/doc/speakup-3.X?
27 >
28 > ???As far as the sftsyn situation I was asking about I have 3 further
29 > questions.
30 >
31 > To get software synthesis working, we need a synthesizer (like
32 > festival,flite,or espeak), and we need a way to configure all the params
33 > (like rates). 2 things used to be done for this. One was the files which
34 > used to live under /proc/speakup, the other was a complex mesh of
35 > synth,speech-dispatcher, synth specific configs, and speechd-up.
36 >
37 > i) I take it speechd-up is now dead and buried? Replaced by 'start=1'
38 > ii) I take it that the config files for rates etc now live in sysfs
39 > somewhere.
40 > iii) What services would you recommend adding to what runlevels for the
41 > userspace software synth? I'm currently assuming that espeak plus
42 > speech-dispatcher should about do it, and that the
43 > speech-dispatcher config still has meaning. Thoughts?
44 >
45 > Thanks much
46 > Robert
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51 William Hubbs
52 gentoo accessibility team lead
53 williamh@g.o
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