1 2The Speakup User's Guide 3For Speakup 3.1.2 and Later 4By Gene Collins 5Updated by others 6Last modified on Mon Sep 27 14:26:31 2010 7Document version 1.3 8 9Copyright (c) 2005 Gene Collins 10Copyright (c) 2008 Samuel Thibault 11Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 the Speakup Team 12 13Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 14under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or 15any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no 16Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A 17copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free 18Documentation License". 19 20Preface 21 22The purpose of this document is to familiarize users with the user 23interface to Speakup, a Linux Screen Reader. If you need instructions 24for installing or obtaining Speakup, visit the web site at 25http://linux-speakup.org/. Speakup is a set of patches to the standard 26Linux kernel source tree. It can be built as a series of modules, or as 27a part of a monolithic kernel. These details are beyond the scope of 28this manual, but the user may need to be aware of the module 29capabilities, depending on how your system administrator has installed 30Speakup. If Speakup is built as a part of a monolithic kernel, and the 31user is using a hardware synthesizer, then Speakup will be able to 32provide speech access from the time the kernel is loaded, until the time 33the system is shutdown. This means that if you have obtained Linux 34installation media for a distribution which includes Speakup as a part 35of its kernel, you will be able, as a blind person, to install Linux 36with speech access unaided by a sighted person. Again, these details 37are beyond the scope of this manual, but the user should be aware of 38them. See the web site mentioned above for further details. 39 401. Starting Speakup 41 42If your system administrator has installed Speakup to work with your 43specific synthesizer by default, then all you need to do to use Speakup 44is to boot your system, and Speakup should come up talking. This 45assumes of course that your synthesizer is a supported hardware 46synthesizer, and that it is either installed in or connected to your 47system, and is if necessary powered on. 48 49It is possible, however, that Speakup may have been compiled into the 50kernel with no default synthesizer. It is even possible that your 51kernel has been compiled with support for some of the supported 52synthesizers and not others. If you find that this is the case, and 53your synthesizer is supported but not available, complain to the person 54who compiled and installed your kernel. Or better yet, go to the web 55site, and learn how to patch Speakup into your own kernel source, and 56build and install your own kernel. 57 58If your kernel has been compiled with Speakup, and has no default 59synthesizer set, or you would like to use a different synthesizer than 60the default one, then you may issue the following command at the boot 61prompt of your boot loader. 62 63linux speakup.synth=ltlk 64 65This command would tell Speakup to look for and use a LiteTalk or 66DoubleTalk LT at boot up. You may replace the ltlk synthesizer keyword 67with the keyword for whatever synthesizer you wish to use. The 68speakup.synth parameter will accept the following keywords, provided 69that support for the related synthesizers has been built into the 70kernel. 71 72acntsa -- Accent SA 73acntpc -- Accent PC 74apollo -- Apollo 75audptr -- Audapter 76bns -- Braille 'n Speak 77dectlk -- DecTalk Express (old and new, db9 serial only) 78decext -- DecTalk (old) External 79dtlk -- DoubleTalk PC 80keypc -- Keynote Gold PC 81ltlk -- DoubleTalk LT, LiteTalk, or external Tripletalk (db9 serial only) 82spkout -- Speak Out 83txprt -- Transport 84dummy -- Plain text terminal 85 86Note: Speakup does * NOT * support usb connections! Speakup also does * 87NOT * support the internal Tripletalk! 88 89Speakup does support two other synthesizers, but because they work in 90conjunction with other software, they must be loaded as modules after 91their related software is loaded, and so are not available at boot up. 92These are as follows: 93 94decpc -- DecTalk PC (not available at boot up) 95soft -- One of several software synthesizers (not available at boot up) 96 97See the sections on loading modules and software synthesizers later in 98this manual for further details. It should be noted here that the 99speakup.synth boot parameter will have no effect if Speakup has been 100compiled as modules. In order for Speakup modules to be loaded during 101the boot process, such action must be configured by your system 102administrator. This will mean that you will hear some, but not all, of 103the bootup messages. 104 1052. Basic operation 106 107Once you have booted the system, and if necessary, have supplied the 108proper bootup parameter for your synthesizer, Speakup will begin 109talking as soon as the kernel is loaded. In fact, it will talk a lot! 110It will speak all the boot up messages that the kernel prints on the 111screen during the boot process. This is because Speakup is not a 112separate screen reader, but is actually built into the operating 113system. Since almost all console applications must print text on the 114screen using the kernel, and must get their keyboard input through the 115kernel, they are automatically handled properly by Speakup. There are a 116few exceptions, but we'll come to those later. 117 118Note: In this guide I will refer to the numeric keypad as the keypad. 119This is done because the speakupmap.map file referred to later in this 120manual uses the term keypad instead of numeric keypad. Also I'm lazy 121and would rather only type one word. So keypad it is. Got it? Good. 122 123Most of the Speakup review keys are located on the keypad at the far 124right of the keyboard. The numlock key should be off, in order for these 125to work. If you toggle the numlock on, the keypad will produce numbers, 126which is exactly what you want for spreadsheets and such. For the 127purposes of this guide, you should have the numlock turned off, which is 128its default state at bootup. 129 130You probably won't want to listen to all the bootup messages every time 131you start your system, though it's a good idea to listen to them at 132least once, just so you'll know what kind of information is available to 133you during the boot process. You can always review these messages after 134bootup with the command: 135 136dmesg | more 137 138In order to speed the boot process, and to silence the speaking of the 139bootup messages, just press the keypad enter key. This key is located 140in the bottom right corner of the keypad. Speakup will shut up and stay 141that way, until you press another key. 142 143You can check to see if the boot process has completed by pressing the 8 144key on the keypad, which reads the current line. This also has the 145effect of starting Speakup talking again, so you can press keypad enter 146to silence it again if the boot process has not completed. 147 148When the boot process is complete, you will arrive at a "login" prompt. 149At this point, you'll need to type in your user id and password, as 150provided by your system administrator. You will hear Speakup speak the 151letters of your user id as you type it, but not the password. This is 152because the password is not displayed on the screen for security 153reasons. This has nothing to do with Speakup, it's a Linux security 154feature. 155 156Once you've logged in, you can run any Linux command or program which is 157allowed by your user id. Normal users will not be able to run programs 158which require root privileges. 159 160When you are running a program or command, Speakup will automatically 161speak new text as it arrives on the screen. You can at any time silence 162the speech with keypad enter, or use any of the Speakup review keys. 163 164Here are some basic Speakup review keys, and a short description of what 165they do. 166 167keypad 1 -- read previous character 168keypad 2 -- read current character (pressing keypad 2 twice rapidly will speak 169 the current character phonetically) 170keypad 3 -- read next character 171keypad 4 -- read previous word 172keypad 5 -- read current word (press twice rapidly to spell the current word) 173keypad 6 -- read next word 174keypad 7 -- read previous line 175keypad 8 -- read current line (press twice rapidly to hear how much the 176 text on the current line is indented) 177keypad 9 -- read next line 178keypad period -- speak current cursor position and announce current 179 virtual console 180 181It's also worth noting that the insert key on the keypad is mapped 182as the speakup key. Instead of pressing and releasing this key, as you 183do under DOS or Windows, you hold it like a shift key, and press other 184keys in combination with it. For example, repeatedly holding keypad 185insert, from now on called speakup, and keypad enter will toggle the 186speaking of new text on the screen on and off. This is not the same as 187just pressing keypad enter by itself, which just silences the speech 188until you hit another key. When you hit speakup plus keypad enter, 189Speakup will say, "You turned me off.", or "Hey, that's better." When 190Speakup is turned off, no new text on the screen will be spoken. You 191can still use the reading controls to review the screen however. 192 1933. Using the Speakup Help System 194 195In order to enter the Speakup help system, press and hold the speakup 196key (remember that this is the keypad insert key), and press the f1 key. 197You will hear the message: 198 199"Press space to leave help, cursor up or down to scroll, or a letter to 200go to commands in list." 201 202When you press the spacebar to leave the help system, you will hear: 203 204"Leaving help." 205 206While you are in the Speakup help system, you can scroll up or down 207through the list of available commands using the cursor keys. The list 208of commands is arranged in alphabetical order. If you wish to jump to 209commands in a specific part of the alphabet, you may press the letter of 210the alphabet you wish to jump to. 211 212You can also just explore by typing keyboard keys. Pressing keys will 213cause Speakup to speak the command associated with that key. For 214example, if you press the keypad 8 key, you will hear: 215 216"Keypad 8 is line, say current." 217 218You'll notice that some commands do not have keys assigned to them. 219This is because they are very infrequently used commands, and are also 220accessible through the sys system. We'll discuss the sys system later 221in this manual. 222 223You'll also notice that some commands have two keys assigned to them. 224This is because Speakup has a built in set of alternative key bindings 225for laptop users. The alternate speakup key is the caps lock key. You 226can press and hold the caps lock key, while pressing an alternate 227speakup command key to activate the command. On most laptops, the 228numeric keypad is defined as the keys in the j k l area of the keyboard. 229 230There is usually a function key which turns this keypad function on and 231off, and some other key which controls the numlock state. Toggling the 232keypad functionality on and off can become a royal pain. So, Speakup 233gives you a simple way to get at an alternative set of key mappings for 234your laptop. These are also available by default on desktop systems, 235because Speakup does not know whether it is running on a desktop or 236laptop. So you may choose which set of Speakup keys to use. Some 237system administrators may have chosen to compile Speakup for a desktop 238system without this set of alternate key bindings, but these details are 239beyond the scope of this manual. To use the caps lock for its normal 240purpose, hold the shift key while toggling the caps lock on and off. We 241should note here, that holding the caps lock key and pressing the z key 242will toggle the alternate j k l keypad on and off. 243 2444. Keys and Their Assigned Commands 245 246In this section, we'll go through a list of all the speakup keys and 247commands. You can also get a list of commands and assigned keys from 248the help system. 249 250The following list was taken from the speakupmap.map file. Key 251assignments are on the left of the equal sign, and the associated 252Speakup commands are on the right. The designation "spk" means to press 253and hold the speakup key, a.k.a. keypad insert, a.k.a. caps lock, while 254pressing the other specified key. 255 256spk key_f9 = punc_level_dec 257spk key_f10 = punc_level_inc 258spk key_f11 = reading_punc_dec 259spk key_f12 = reading_punc_inc 260spk key_1 = vol_dec 261spk key_2 = vol_inc 262spk key_3 = pitch_dec 263spk key_4 = pitch_inc 264spk key_5 = rate_dec 265spk key_6 = rate_inc 266key_kpasterisk = toggle_cursoring 267spk key_kpasterisk = speakup_goto 268spk key_f1 = speakup_help 269spk key_f2 = set_win 270spk key_f3 = clear_win 271spk key_f4 = enable_win 272spk key_f5 = edit_some 273spk key_f6 = edit_most 274spk key_f7 = edit_delim 275spk key_f8 = edit_repeat 276shift spk key_f9 = edit_exnum 277 key_kp7 = say_prev_line 278spk key_kp7 = left_edge 279 key_kp8 = say_line 280double key_kp8 = say_line_indent 281spk key_kp8 = say_from_top 282 key_kp9 = say_next_line 283spk key_kp9 = top_edge 284 key_kpminus = speakup_parked 285spk key_kpminus = say_char_num 286 key_kp4 = say_prev_word 287spk key_kp4 = say_from_left 288 key_kp5 = say_word 289double key_kp5 = spell_word 290spk key_kp5 = spell_phonetic 291 key_kp6 = say_next_word 292spk key_kp6 = say_to_right 293 key_kpplus = say_screen 294spk key_kpplus = say_win 295 key_kp1 = say_prev_char 296spk key_kp1 = right_edge 297 key_kp2 = say_char 298spk key_kp2 = say_to_bottom 299double key_kp2 = say_phonetic_char 300 key_kp3 = say_next_char 301spk key_kp3 = bottom_edge 302 key_kp0 = spk_key 303 key_kpdot = say_position 304spk key_kpdot = say_attributes 305key_kpenter = speakup_quiet 306spk key_kpenter = speakup_off 307key_sysrq = speech_kill 308 key_kpslash = speakup_cut 309spk key_kpslash = speakup_paste 310spk key_pageup = say_first_char 311spk key_pagedown = say_last_char 312key_capslock = spk_key 313 spk key_z = spk_lock 314key_leftmeta = spk_key 315ctrl spk key_0 = speakup_goto 316spk key_u = say_prev_line 317spk key_i = say_line 318double spk key_i = say_line_indent 319spk key_o = say_next_line 320spk key_minus = speakup_parked 321shift spk key_minus = say_char_num 322spk key_j = say_prev_word 323spk key_k = say_word 324double spk key_k = spell_word 325spk key_l = say_next_word 326spk key_m = say_prev_char 327spk key_comma = say_char 328double spk key_comma = say_phonetic_char 329spk key_dot = say_next_char 330spk key_n = say_position 331 ctrl spk key_m = left_edge 332 ctrl spk key_y = top_edge 333 ctrl spk key_dot = right_edge 334ctrl spk key_p = bottom_edge 335spk key_apostrophe = say_screen 336spk key_h = say_from_left 337spk key_y = say_from_top 338spk key_semicolon = say_to_right 339spk key_p = say_to_bottom 340spk key_slash = say_attributes 341 spk key_enter = speakup_quiet 342 ctrl spk key_enter = speakup_off 343 spk key_9 = speakup_cut 344spk key_8 = speakup_paste 345shift spk key_m = say_first_char 346 ctrl spk key_semicolon = say_last_char 347 3485. The Speakup Sys System 349 350The Speakup screen reader also creates a speakup subdirectory as a part 351of the sys system. 352 353As a convenience, run as root 354 355ln -s /sys/accessibility/speakup /speakup 356 357to directly access speakup parameters from /speakup. 358You can see these entries by typing the command: 359 360ls -1 /speakup/* 361 362If you issue the above ls command, you will get back something like 363this: 364 365/speakup/attrib_bleep 366/speakup/bell_pos 367/speakup/bleep_time 368/speakup/bleeps 369/speakup/cursor_time 370/speakup/delimiters 371/speakup/ex_num 372/speakup/key_echo 373/speakup/keymap 374/speakup/no_interrupt 375/speakup/punc_all 376/speakup/punc_level 377/speakup/punc_most 378/speakup/punc_some 379/speakup/reading_punc 380/speakup/repeats 381/speakup/say_control 382/speakup/say_word_ctl 383/speakup/silent 384/speakup/spell_delay 385/speakup/synth 386/speakup/synth_direct 387/speakup/version 388 389/speakup/i18n: 390announcements 391characters 392chartab 393colors 394ctl_keys 395formatted 396function_names 397key_names 398states 399 400/speakup/soft: 401caps_start 402caps_stop 403delay_time 404direct 405freq 406full_time 407jiffy_delta 408pitch 409punct 410rate 411tone 412trigger_time 413voice 414vol 415 416Notice the two subdirectories of /speakup: /speakup/i18n and 417/speakup/soft. 418The i18n subdirectory is described in a later section. 419The files under /speakup/soft represent settings that are specific to the 420driver for the software synthesizer. If you use the LiteTalk, your 421synthesizer-specific settings would be found in /speakup/ltlk. In other words, 422a subdirectory named /speakup/KWD is created to hold parameters specific 423to the device whose keyword is KWD. 424These parameters include volume, rate, pitch, and others. 425 426In addition to using the Speakup hot keys to change such things as 427volume, pitch, and rate, you can also echo values to the appropriate 428entry in the /speakup directory. This is very useful, since it 429lets you control Speakup parameters from within a script. How you 430would write such scripts is somewhat beyond the scope of this manual, 431but I will include a couple of simple examples here to give you a 432general idea of what such scripts can do. 433 434Suppose for example, that you wanted to control both the punctuation 435level and the reading punctuation level at the same time. For 436simplicity, we'll call them punc0, punc1, punc2, and punc3. The scripts 437might look something like this: 438 439#!/bin/bash 440# punc0 441# set punc and reading punc levels to 0 442echo 0 >/speakup/punc_level 443echo 0 >/speakup/reading_punc 444echo Punctuation level set to 0. 445 446#!/bin/bash 447# punc1 448# set punc and reading punc levels to 1 449echo 1 >/speakup/punc_level 450echo 1 >/speakup/reading_punc 451echo Punctuation level set to 1. 452 453#!/bin/bash 454# punc2 455# set punc and reading punc levels to 2 456echo 2 >/speakup/punc_level 457echo 2 >/speakup/reading_punc 458echo Punctuation level set to 2. 459 460#!/bin/bash 461# punc3 462# set punc and reading punc levels to 3 463echo 3 >/speakup/punc_level 464echo 3 >/speakup/reading_punc 465echo Punctuation level set to 3. 466 467If you were to store these four small scripts in a directory in your 468path, perhaps /usr/local/bin, and set the permissions to 755 with the 469chmod command, then you could change the default reading punc and 470punctuation levels at the same time by issuing just one command. For 471example, if you were to execute the punc3 command at your shell prompt, 472then the reading punc and punc level would both get set to 3. 473 474I should note that the above scripts were written to work with bash, but 475regardless of which shell you use, you should be able to do something 476similar. 477 478The Speakup sys system also has another interesting use. You can echo 479Speakup parameters into the sys system in a script during system 480startup, and speakup will return to your preferred parameters every time 481the system is rebooted. 482 483Most of the Speakup sys parameters can be manipulated by a regular user 484on the system. However, there are a few parameters that are dangerous 485enough that they should only be manipulated by the root user on your 486system. There are even some parameters that are read only, and cannot 487be written to at all. For example, the version entry in the Speakup 488sys system is read only. This is because there is no reason for a user 489to tamper with the version number which is reported by Speakup. Doing 490an ls -l on /speakup/version will return this: 491 492-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 21 13:46 /speakup/version 493 494As you can see, the version entry in the Speakup sys system is read 495only, is owned by root, and belongs to the root group. Doing a cat of 496/speakup/version will display the Speakup version number, like 497this: 498 499cat /speakup/version 500Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Thu Oct 21 10:38:21 EDT 2004 501synth dtlk version 1.1 502 503The display shows the Speakup version number, along with the version 504number of the driver for the current synthesizer. 505 506Looking at entries in the Speakup sys system can be useful in many 507ways. For example, you might wish to know what level your volume is set 508at. You could type: 509 510cat /speakup/KWD/vol 511# Replace KWD with the keyword for your synthesizer, E.G., ltlk for LiteTalk. 5125 513 514The number five which comes back is the level at which the synthesizer 515volume is set at. 516 517All the entries in the Speakup sys system are readable, some are 518writable by root only, and some are writable by everyone. Unless you 519know what you are doing, you should probably leave the ones that are 520writable by root only alone. Most of the names are self explanatory. 521Vol for controlling volume, pitch for pitch, rate for controlling speaking 522rate, etc. If you find one you aren't sure about, you can post a query 523on the Speakup list. 524 5256. Changing Synthesizers 526 527It is possible to change to a different synthesizer while speakup is 528running. In other words, it is not necessary to reboot the system 529in order to use a different synthesizer. You can simply echo the 530synthesizer keyword to the /speakup/synth sys entry. 531Depending on your situation, you may wish to echo none to the synth 532sys entry, to disable speech while one synthesizer is disconnected and 533a second one is connected in its place. Then echo the keyword for the 534new synthesizer into the synth sys entry in order to start speech 535with the newly connected synthesizer. See the list of synthesizer 536keywords in section 1 to find the keyword which matches your synth. 537 5387. Loading modules 539 540As mentioned earlier, Speakup can either be completely compiled into the 541kernel, with the exception of the help module, or it can be compiled as 542a series of modules. When compiled as modules, Speakup will only be 543able to speak some of the bootup messages if your system administrator 544has configured the system to load the modules at boo time. The modules 545can be loaded after the file systems have been checked and mounted, or 546from an initrd. There is a third possibility. Speakup can be compiled 547with some components built into the kernel, and others as modules. As 548we'll see in the next section, this is particularly useful when you are 549working with software synthesizers. 550 551If Speakup is completely compiled as modules, then you must use the 552modprobe command to load Speakup. You do this by loading the module for 553the synthesizer driver you wish to use. The driver modules are all 554named speakup_<keyword>, where <keyword> is the keyword for the 555synthesizer you want. So, in order to load the driver for the DecTalk 556Express, you would type the following command: 557 558modprobe speakup_dectlk 559 560Issuing this command would load the DecTalk Express driver and all other 561related Speakup modules necessary to get Speakup up and running. 562 563To completely unload Speakup, again presuming that it is entirely built 564as modules, you would give the command: 565 566modprobe -r speakup_dectlk 567 568The above command assumes you were running a DecTalk Express. If you 569were using a different synth, then you would substitute its keyword in 570place of dectlk. 571 572If you have multiple drivers loaded, you need to unload all of them, in 573order to completely unload Speakup. 574For example, if you have loaded both the dectlk and ltlk drivers, use the 575command: 576modprobe -r speakup_dectlk speakup_ltlk 577 578You cannot unload the driver for software synthesizers when a user-space 579daemon is using /dev/softsynth. First, kill the daemon. Next, remove 580the driver with the command: 581modprobe -r speakup_soft 582 583Now, suppose we have a situation where the main Speakup component 584is built into the kernel, and some or all of the drivers are built as 585modules. Since the main part of Speakup is compiled into the kernel, a 586partial Speakup sys system has been created which we can take advantage 587of by simply echoing the synthesizer keyword into the 588/speakup/synth sys entry. This will cause the kernel to 589automatically load the appropriate driver module, and start Speakup 590talking. To switch to another synth, just echo a new keyword to the 591synth sys entry. For example, to load the DoubleTalk LT driver, 592you would type: 593 594echo ltlk >/speakup/synth 595 596You can use the modprobe -r command to unload driver modules, regardless 597of whether the main part of Speakup has been built into the kernel or 598not. 599 6008. Using Software Synthesizers 601 602Using a software synthesizer requires that some other software be 603installed and running on your system. For this reason, software 604synthesizers are not available for use at bootup, or during a system 605installation process. 606There are two freely-available solutions for software speech: Espeakup and 607Speech Dispatcher. 608These are described in subsections 8.1 and 8.2, respectively. 609 610During the rest of this section, we assume that speakup_soft is either 611built in to your kernel, or loaded as a module. 612 613If your system does not have udev installed , before you can use a 614software synthesizer, you must have created the /dev/softsynth device. 615If you have not already done so, issue the following commands as root: 616 617cd /dev 618mknod softsynth c 10 26 619 620While we are at it, we might just as well create the /dev/synth device, 621which can be used to let user space programs send information to your 622synthesizer. To create /dev/synth, change to the /dev directory, and 623issue the following command as root: 624 625mknod synth c 10 25 626 627of both. 628 6298.1. Espeakup 630 631Espeakup is a connector between Speakup and the eSpeak software synthesizer. 632Espeakup may already be available as a package for your distribution 633of Linux. If it is not packaged, you need to install it manually. 634You can find it in the contrib/ subdirectory of the Speakup sources. 635The filename is espeakup-$VERSION.tar.bz2, where $VERSION 636depends on the current release of Espeakup. The Speakup 3.1.2 source 637ships with version 0.71 of Espeakup. 638The README file included with the Espeakup sources describes the process 639of manual installation. 640 641Assuming that Espeakup is installed, either by the user or by the distributor, 642follow these steps to use it. 643 644Tell Speakup to use the "soft driver: 645echo soft > /speakup/synth 646 647Finally, start the espeakup program. There are two ways to do it. 648Both require root privileges. 649 650If Espeakup was installed as a package for your Linux distribution, 651you probably have a distribution-specific script that controls the operation 652of the daemon. Look for a file named espeakup under /etc/init.d or 653/etc/rc.d. Execute the following command with root privileges: 654/etc/init.d/espeakup start 655Replace init.d with rc.d, if your distribution uses scripts located under 656/etc/rc.d. 657Your distribution will also have a procedure for starting daemons at 658boot-time, so it is possible to have software speech as soon as user-space 659daemons are started by the bootup scripts. 660These procedures are not described in this document. 661 662If you built Espeakup manually, the "make install" step placed the binary 663under /usr/bin. 664Run the following command as root: 665/usr/bin/espeakup 666Espeakup should start speaking. 667 6688.2. Speech Dispatcher 669 670For this option, you must have a package called 671Speech Dispatcher running on your system, and it must be configured to 672work with one of its supported software synthesizers. 673 674Two open source synthesizers you might use are Flite and Festival. You 675might also choose to purchase the Software DecTalk from Fonix Sales Inc. 676If you run a google search for Fonix, you'll find their web site. 677 678You can obtain a copy of Speech Dispatcher from free(b)soft at 679http://www.freebsoft.org/. Follow the installation instructions that 680come with Speech Dispatcher in order to install and configure Speech 681Dispatcher. You can check out the web site for your Linux distribution 682in order to get a copy of either Flite or Festival. Your Linux 683distribution may also have a precompiled Speech Dispatcher package. 684 685Once you've installed, configured, and tested Speech Dispatcher with your 686chosen software synthesizer, you still need one more piece of software 687in order to make things work. You need a package called speechd-up. 688You get it from the free(b)soft web site mentioned above. After you've 689compiled and installed speechd-up, you are almost ready to begin using 690your software synthesizer. 691 692Now you can begin using your software synthesizer. In order to do so, 693echo the soft keyword to the synth sys entry like this: 694 695echo soft >/speakup/synth 696 697Next run the speechd_up command like this: 698 699speechd_up & 700 701Your synth should now start talking, and you should be able to adjust 702the pitch, rate, etc. 703 7049. Using The DecTalk PC Card 705 706The DecTalk PC card is an ISA card that is inserted into one of the ISA 707slots in your computer. It requires that the DecTalk PC software be 708installed on your computer, and that the software be loaded onto the 709Dectalk PC card before it can be used. 710 711You can get the dec_pc.tgz file from the linux-speakup.org site. The 712dec_pc.tgz file is in the ~ftp/pub/linux/speakup directory. 713 714After you have downloaded the dec_pc.tgz file, untar it in your home 715directory, and read the Readme file in the newly created dec_pc 716directory. 717 718The easiest way to get the software working is to copy the entire dec_pc 719directory into /user/local/lib. To do this, su to root in your home 720directory, and issue the command: 721 722cp dec_pc /usr/local/lib 723 724You will need to copy the dtload command from the dec_pc directory to a 725directory in your path. Either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin is a good 726choice. 727 728You can now run the dtload command in order to load the DecTalk PC 729software onto the card. After you have done this, echo the decpc 730keyword to the synth entry in the sys system like this: 731 732echo decpc >/speakup/synth 733 734Your DecTalk PC should start talking, and then you can adjust the pitch, 735rate, volume, voice, etc. The voice entry in the Speakup sys system 736will accept a number from 0 through 7 for the DecTalk PC synthesizer, 737which will give you access to some of the DecTalk voices. 738 73910. Using Cursor Tracking 740 741In Speakup version 2.0 and later, cursor tracking is turned on by 742default. This means that when you are using an editor, Speakup will 743automatically speak characters as you move left and right with the 744cursor keys, and lines as you move up and down with the cursor keys. 745This is the traditional sort of cursor tracking. 746Recent versions of Speakup provide two additional ways to control the 747text that is spoken when the cursor is moved: 748"highlight tracking" and "read window." 749They are described later in this section. 750Sometimes, these modes get in your way, so you can disable cursor tracking 751altogether. 752 753You may select among the various forms of cursor tracking using the keypad 754asterisk key. 755Each time you press this key, a new mode is selected, and Speakup speaks 756the name of the new mode. The names for the four possible states of cursor 757tracking are: "cursoring on", "highlight tracking", "read window", 758and "cursoring off." The keypad asterisk key moves through the list of 759modes in a circular fashion. 760 761If highlight tracking is enabled, Speakup tracks highlighted text, 762rather than the cursor itself. When you move the cursor with the arrow keys, 763Speakup speaks the currently highlighted information. 764This is useful when moving through various menus and dialog boxes. 765If cursor tracking isn't helping you while navigating a menu, 766try highlight tracking. 767 768With the "read window" variety of cursor tracking, you can limit the text 769that Speakup speaks by specifying a window of interest on the screen. 770See section 15 for a description of the process of defining windows. 771When you move the cursor via the arrow keys, Speakup only speaks 772the contents of the window. This is especially helpful when you are hearing 773superfluous speech. Consider the following example. 774 775Suppose that you are at a shell prompt. You use bash, and you want to 776explore your command history using the up and down arrow keys. If you 777have enabled cursor tracking, you will hear two pieces of information. 778Speakup speaks both your shell prompt and the current entry from the 779command history. You may not want to hear the prompt repeated 780each time you move, so you can silence it by specifying a window. Find 781the last line of text on the screen. Clear the current window by pressing 782the key combination speakup f3. Use the review cursor to find the first 783character that follows your shell prompt. Press speakup + f2 twice, to 784define a one-line window. The boundaries of the window are the 785character following the shell prompt and the end of the line. Now, cycle 786through the cursor tracking modes using keypad asterisk, until Speakup 787says "read window." Move through your history using your arrow keys. 788You will notice that Speakup no longer speaks the redundant prompt. 789 790Some folks like to turn cursor tracking off while they are using the 791lynx web browser. You definitely want to turn cursor tracking off when 792you are using the alsamixer application. Otherwise, you won't be able 793to hear your mixer settings while you are using the arrow keys. 794 79511. Cut and Paste 796 797One of Speakup's more useful features is the ability to cut and paste 798text on the screen. This means that you can capture information from a 799program, and paste that captured text into a different place in the 800program, or into an entirely different program, which may even be 801running on a different console. 802 803For example, in this manual, we have made references to several web 804sites. It would be nice if you could cut and paste these urls into your 805web browser. Speakup does this quite nicely. Suppose you wanted to 806past the following url into your browser: 807 808http://linux-speakup.org/ 809 810Use the speakup review keys to position the reading cursor on the first 811character of the above url. When the reading cursor is in position, 812press the keypad slash key once. Speakup will say, "mark". Next, 813position the reading cursor on the rightmost character of the above 814url. Press the keypad slash key once again to actually cut the text 815from the screen. Speakup will say, "cut". Although we call this 816cutting, Speakup does not actually delete the cut text from the screen. 817It makes a copy of the text in a special buffer for later pasting. 818 819Now that you have the url cut from the screen, you can paste it into 820your browser, or even paste the url on a command line as an argument to 821your browser. 822 823Suppose you want to start lynx and go to the Speakup site. 824 825You can switch to a different console with the alt left and right 826arrows, or you can switch to a specific console by typing alt and a 827function key. These are not Speakup commands, just standard Linux 828console capabilities. 829 830Once you've changed to an appropriate console, and are at a shell prompt, 831type the word lynx, followed by a space. Now press and hold the speakup 832key, while you type the keypad slash character. The url will be pasted 833onto the command line, just as though you had typed it in. Press the 834enter key to execute the command. 835 836The paste buffer will continue to hold the cut information, until a new 837mark and cut operation is carried out. This means you can paste the cut 838information as many times as you like before doing another cut 839operation. 840 841You are not limited to cutting and pasting only one line on the screen. 842You can also cut and paste rectangular regions of the screen. Just 843position the reading cursor at the top left corner of the text to be 844cut, mark it with the keypad slash key, then position the reading cursor 845at the bottom right corner of the region to be cut, and cut it with the 846keypad slash key. 847 84812. Changing the Pronunciation of Characters 849 850Through the /speakup/i18n/characters sys entry, Speakup gives you the 851ability to change how Speakup pronounces a given character. You could, 852for example, change how some punctuation characters are spoken. You can 853even change how Speakup will pronounce certain letters. 854 855You may, for example, wish to change how Speakup pronounces the z 856character. The author of Speakup, Kirk Reiser, is Canadian, and thus 857believes that the z should be pronounced zed. If you are an American, 858you might wish to use the zee pronunciation instead of zed. You can 859change the pronunciation of both the upper and lower case z with the 860following two commands: 861 862echo 90 zee >/speakup/characters 863echo 122 zee >/speakup/characters 864 865Let's examine the parts of the two previous commands. They are issued 866at the shell prompt, and could be placed in a startup script. 867 868The word echo tells the shell that you want to have it display the 869string of characters that follow the word echo. If you were to just 870type: 871 872echo hello. 873 874You would get the word hello printed on your screen as soon as you 875pressed the enter key. In this case, we are echoing strings that we 876want to be redirected into the sys system. 877 878The numbers 90 and 122 in the above echo commands are the ascii numeric 879values for the upper and lower case z, the characters we wish to change. 880 881The string zee is the pronunciation that we want Speakup to use for the 882upper and lower case z. 883 884The > symbol redirects the output of the echo command to a file, just 885like in DOS, or at the Windows command prompt. 886 887And finally, /speakup/i18n/characters is the file entry in the sys system 888where we want the output to be directed. Speakup looks at the numeric 889value of the character we want to change, and inserts the pronunciation 890string into an internal table. 891 892You can look at the whole table with the following command: 893 894cat /speakup/i18n/characters 895 896Speakup will then print out the entire character pronunciation table. I 897won't display it here, but leave you to look at it at your convenience. 898 89913. Mapping Keys 900 901Speakup has the capability of allowing you to assign or "map" keys to 902internal Speakup commands. This section necessarily assumes you have a 903Linux kernel source tree installed, and that it has been patched and 904configured with Speakup. How you do this is beyond the scope of this 905manual. For this information, visit the Speakup web site at 906http://linux-speakup.org/. The reason you'll need the kernel source 907tree patched with Speakup is that the genmap utility you'll need for 908processing keymaps is in the 909/usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup directory. The 910<version_number> in the above directory path is the version number of 911the Linux source tree you are working with. 912 913So ok, you've gone off and gotten your kernel source tree, and patched 914and configured it. Now you can start manipulating keymaps. 915 916You can either use the 917/usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/speakupmap.map file 918included with the Speakup source, or you can cut and paste the copy in 919section 4 into a separate file. If you use the one in the Speakup 920source tree, make sure you make a backup of it before you start making 921changes. You have been warned! 922 923Suppose that you want to swap the key assignments for the Speakup 924say_last_char and the Speakup say_first_char commands. The 925speakupmap.map lists the key mappings for these two commands as follows: 926 927spk key_pageup = say_first_char 928spk key_pagedown = say_last_char 929 930You can edit your copy of the speakupmap.map file and swap the command 931names on the right side of the = (equals) sign. You did make a backup, 932right? The new keymap lines would look like this: 933 934spk key_pageup = say_last_char 935spk key_pagedown = say_first_char 936 937After you edit your copy of the speakupmap.map file, save it under a new 938file name, perhaps newmap.map. Then exit your editor and return to the 939shell prompt. 940 941You are now ready to load your keymap with your swapped key assignments. 942 Assuming that you saved your new keymap as the file newmap.map, you 943would load your keymap into the sys system like this: 944 945/usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/genmap newmap.map 946>/speakup/keymap 947 948Remember to substitute your kernel version number for the 949<version_number> in the above command. Also note that although the 950above command wrapped onto two lines in this document, you should type 951it all on one line. 952 953Your say first and say last characters should now be swapped. Pressing 954speakup pagedown should read you the first non-whitespace character on 955the line your reading cursor is in, and pressing speakup pageup should 956read you the last character on the line your reading cursor is in. 957 958You should note that these new mappings will only stay in effect until 959you reboot, or until you load another keymap. 960 961One final warning. If you try to load a partial map, you will quickly 962find that all the mappings you didn't include in your file got deleted 963from the working map. Be extremely careful, and always make a backup! 964You have been warned! 965 96614. Internationalizing Speakup 967 968Speakup indicates various conditions to the user by speaking messages. 969For instance, when you move to the left edge of the screen with the 970review keys, Speakup says, "left." 971Prior to version 3.1.0 of Speakup, all of these messages were in English, 972and they could not be changed. If you used a non-English synthesizer, 973you still heard English messages, such as "left" and "cursoring on." 974In version 3.1.0 or higher, one may load translations for the various 975messages via the /sys filesystem. 976 977The directory /speakup/i18n contains several collections of messages. 978Each group of messages is stored in its own file. 979The following section lists all of these files, along with a brief description 980of each. 981 98214.1. Files Under the i18n Subdirectory 983 984* announcements: 985This file contains various general announcements, most of which cannot 986be categorized. You will find messages such as "You killed Speakup", 987"I'm alive", "leaving help", "parked", "unparked", and others. 988You will also find the names of the screen edges and cursor tracking modes 989here. 990 991* characters: 992See section 12 for a description of this file. 993 994* chartab: 995See section 12. Unlike the rest of the files in the i18n subdirectory, 996this one does not contain messages to be spoken. 997 998* colors: 999When you use the "say attributes" function, Speakup says the name of the 1000foreground and background colors. These names come from the i18n/colors 1001file. 1002 1003* ctl_keys: 1004Here, you will find names of control keys. These are used with Speakup's 1005say_control feature. 1006 1007* formatted: 1008This group of messages contains embedded formatting codes, to specify 1009the type and width of displayed data. If you change these, you must 1010preserve all of the formatting codes, and they must appear in the order 1011used by the default messages. 1012 1013* function_names: 1014Here, you will find a list of names for Speakup functions. These are used 1015by the help system. For example, suppose that you have activated help mode, 1016and you pressed keypad 3. Speakup says: 1017"keypad 3 is character, say next." 1018The message "character, say next" names a Speakup function, and it 1019comes from this function_names file. 1020 1021* key_names: 1022Again, key_names is used by Speakup's help system. In the previous 1023example, Speakup said that you pressed "keypad 3." 1024This name came from the key_names file. 1025 1026* states: 1027This file contains names for key states. 1028Again, these are part of the help system. For instance, if you had pressed 1029speakup + keypad 3, you would hear: 1030"speakup keypad 3 is go to bottom edge." 1031The speakup key is depressed, so the name of the key state is speakup. 1032This part of the message comes from the states collection. 1033 103414.2. Loading Your Own Messages 1035 1036The files under the i18n subdirectory all follow the same format. 1037They consist of lines, with one message per line. 1038Each message is represented by a number, followed by the text of the message. 1039The number is the position of the message in the given collection. 1040For example, if you view the file /speakup/i18n/colors, you will see the 1041following list: 1042 10430 black 10441 blue 10452 green 10463 cyan 10474 red 10485 magenta 10496 yellow 10507 white 10518 grey 1052 1053You can change one message, or you can change a whole group. 1054To load a whole collection of messages from a new source, simply use 1055the cp command: 1056cp ~/my_colors /speakup/i18n/colors 1057You can change an individual message with the echo command, 1058as shown in the following example. 1059 1060The Spanish name for the color blue is azul. 1061Looking at the colors file, we see that the name "blue" is at position 1 1062within the colors group. Let's change blue to azul: 1063echo '1 azul' > /speakup/i18n/colors 1064The next time that Speakup says message 1 from the colors group, it will 1065say "azul", rather than "blue." 1066 1067In the future, translations into various languages will be made available, 1068and most users will just load the files necessary for their language. 1069 107014.3. No Support for Non-Western-European Languages 1071 1072As of the current release, Speakup only supports Western European languages. 1073Support for the extended characters used by languages outside of the Western 1074European family of languages is a work in progress. 1075 107615. Using Speakup's Windowing Capability 1077 1078Speakup has the capability of defining and manipulating windows on the 1079screen. Speakup uses the term "Window", to mean a user defined area of 1080the screen. The key strokes for defining and manipulating Speakup 1081windows are as follows: 1082 1083speakup + f2 -- Set the bounds of the window. 1084Speakup + f3 -- clear the current window definition. 1085speakup + f4 -- Toggle window silence on and off. 1086speakup + keypad plus -- Say the currently defined window. 1087 1088These capabilities are useful for tracking a certain part of the screen 1089without rereading the whole screen, or for silencing a part of the 1090screen that is constantly changing, such as a clock or status line. 1091 1092There is no way to save these window settings, and you can only have one 1093window defined for each virtual console. There is also no way to have 1094windows automatically defined for specific applications. 1095 1096In order to define a window, use the review keys to move your reading 1097cursor to the beginning of the area you want to define. Then press 1098speakup + f2. Speakup will tell you that the window starts at the 1099indicated row and column position. Then move the reading cursor to the 1100end of the area to be defined as a window, and press speakup + f2 again. 1101 If there is more than one line in the window, Speakup will tell you 1102that the window ends at the indicated row and column position. If there 1103is only one line in the window, then Speakup will tell you that the 1104window is the specified line on the screen. If you are only defining a 1105one line window, you can just press speakup + f2 twice after placing the 1106reading cursor on the line you want to define as a window. It is not 1107necessary to position the reading cursor at the end of the line in order 1108to define the whole line as a window. 1109 111016. Tools for Controlling Speakup 1111 1112The speakup distribution includes extra tools (in the tools directory) 1113which were written to make speakup easier to use. This section will 1114briefly describe the use of these tools. 1115 111616.1. Speakupconf 1117 1118speakupconf began life as a contribution from Steve Holmes, a member of 1119the speakup community. We would like to thank him for his work on the 1120early versions of this project. 1121 1122This script may be installed as part of your linux distribution, but if 1123it isn't, the recommended places to put it are /usr/local/bin or 1124/usr/bin. This script can be run by any user, so it does not require 1125root privileges. 1126 1127Speakupconf allows you to save and load your Speakup settings. It works 1128by reading and writing the /sys files described above. 1129 1130The directory that speakupconf uses to store your settings depends on 1131whether it is run from the root account. If you execute speakupconf as 1132root, it uses the directory /etc/speakup. Otherwise, it uses the directory 1133~/.speakup, where ~ is your home directory. 1134Anyone who needs to use Speakup from your console can load his own custom 1135settings with this script. 1136 1137speakupconf takes one required argument: load or save. 1138Use the command 1139speakupconf save 1140to save your Speakup settings, and 1141speakupconf load 1142to load them into Speakup. 1143A second argument may be specified to use an alternate directory to 1144load or save the speakup parameters. 1145 114616.2. Talkwith 1147 1148Charles Hallenbeck, another member of the speakup community, wrote the 1149initial versions of this script, and we would also like to thank him for 1150his work on it. 1151 1152This script needs root privileges to run, so if it is not installed as 1153part of your linux distribution, the recommended places to install it 1154are /usr/local/sbin or /usr/sbin. 1155 1156Talkwith allows you to switch synthesizers on the fly. 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