Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt

29 capabilities, depending on how your system administrator has installed
42 If your system administrator has installed Speakup to work with your
44 is to boot your system, and Speakup should come up talking.  This
45 assumes of course  that your synthesizer is a supported hardware
46 synthesizer, and that it is either installed in or connected to your
50 kernel with no default synthesizer.  It is even possible that your
53 your synthesizer is supported but not available, complain to the person
54 who compiled and installed your kernel.  Or better yet, go to the web
55 site, and learn how to patch Speakup into your own kernel source, and
56 build and install your own kernel.
58 If your kernel has been compiled with Speakup, and has no default
61 prompt of your boot loader.
101 the boot process, such action must be configured by your system
108 proper bootup parameter for your synthesizer, Speakup will begin
131 you start your system, though it's a good idea to listen to them at
149 At this point, you'll need to type in your user id and password, as
150 provided by your system administrator.  You will hear Speakup speak the
151 letters of your user id as you type it, but not the password.  This is
157 allowed by your user id.  Normal users will not be able to run programs
234 your laptop.  These are also available by default on desktop systems,
421 driver for the software synthesizer.  If you use the LiteTalk, your
468 If you were to store these four small scripts in a directory in your
472 example, if you were to execute the punc3 command at your shell prompt,
481 startup, and speakup will return to your preferred parameters every time
486 enough that they should only be manipulated by the root user on your
508 ways.  For example, you might wish to know what level your volume is set
512 # Replace KWD with the keyword for your synthesizer, E.G., ltlk for LiteTalk.
532 Depending on your situation, you may wish to echo none to the synth
537 keywords in section 1 to find the keyword which matches your synth.
544 able to speak some of the bootup messages if your system administrator
604 installed and running on your system.  For this reason, software
612 built in to your kernel, or loaded as a module.
614 If your system does not have udev installed , before you can use a
622 which can be used to let user space programs send information to your
633 Espeakup may already be available as a package for your distribution
651 If Espeakup was installed as a package for your Linux distribution,
656 Replace init.d with rc.d, if your distribution uses scripts located under
658 Your distribution will also have a procedure for starting daemons at
672 Speech Dispatcher running on your system, and it must be configured to
682 Dispatcher.  You can check out the web site for your Linux distribution
683 in order to get a copy of either Flite or Festival.  Your Linux
686 Once you've installed, configured, and tested Speech Dispatcher with your
691 your software synthesizer.
693 Now you can begin using your software synthesizer.  In order to do so,
702 Your synth should now start talking, and you should be able to adjust
708 slots in your computer.  It requires that the DecTalk PC software be
709 installed on your computer, and that the software be loaded onto the
715 After you have downloaded the dec_pc.tgz file, untar it in your home
720 directory into /user/local/lib.  To do this, su to root in your home
726 directory in your path.  Either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin is a good
735 Your DecTalk PC should start talking, and then you can adjust the pitch,
751 Sometimes, these modes get in your way, so you can disable cursor tracking
777 explore your command history using the up and down arrow keys.  If you
779 Speakup speaks both your shell prompt and the current entry from the
784 character that follows your shell prompt.  Press speakup + f2 twice, to
788 says "read window."  Move through your history using your arrow keys.
794 to hear your mixer settings while you are using the arrow keys.
805 sites.  It would be nice if you could cut and paste these urls into your
807 past the following url into your browser:
821 your browser, or even paste the url on a command line as an argument to
822 your browser.
875 You would get the word hello printed on your screen as soon as you
898 won't display it here, but leave you to look at it at your convenience.
914 So ok, you've gone off and gotten your kernel source tree, and patched
931 You can edit your copy of the speakupmap.map file and swap the command
938 After you edit your copy of the speakupmap.map file, save it under a new
939 file name, perhaps newmap.map.  Then exit your editor and return to the
942 You are now ready to load your keymap with your swapped key assignments.
943  Assuming that you saved your new keymap as the file newmap.map, you
944 would load your keymap into the sys system like this:
949 Remember to substitute your kernel version number for the
954 Your say first and say last characters should now be swapped.  Pressing
956 the line your reading cursor is in, and pressing speakup pageup should
957 read you the last character on the line your reading cursor is in.
963 find that all the mappings you didn't include in your file got deleted
1035 14.2.  Loading Your Own Messages
1097 In order to define a window, use the review keys to move your reading
1123 This script may be installed as part of your linux distribution, but if
1128 Speakupconf allows you to save and load your Speakup settings.  It works
1131 The directory that speakupconf uses to store your settings depends on
1134 ~/.speakup, where ~ is your home directory.
1135 Anyone who needs to use Speakup from your console can load his own custom
1141 to save your Speakup settings, and
1154 part of your linux distribution, the recommended places to install it
1174 Talkwith does not attempt to load your settings after the new
1175 synthesizer is activated.  You can use speakupconf to load your settings
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