2 The Speakup User's Guide
3 For Speakup 3.1.2 and Later
6 Last modified on Mon Sep 27 14:26:31 2010
9 Copyright (c) 2005 Gene Collins
10 Copyright (c) 2008 Samuel Thibault
11 Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 the Speakup Team
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22 The purpose of this document is to familiarize users with the user
23 interface to Speakup, a Linux Screen Reader. If you need instructions
24 for installing or obtaining Speakup, visit the web site at
25 http://linux-speakup.org/. Speakup is a set of patches to the standard
26 Linux kernel source tree. It can be built as a series of modules, or as
27 a part of a monolithic kernel. These details are beyond the scope of
28 this manual, but the user may need to be aware of the module
29 capabilities, depending on how your system administrator has installed
30 Speakup. If Speakup is built as a part of a monolithic kernel, and the
31 user is using a hardware synthesizer, then Speakup will be able to
32 provide speech access from the time the kernel is loaded, until the time
33 the system is shutdown. This means that if you have obtained Linux
34 installation media for a distribution which includes Speakup as a part
35 of its kernel, you will be able, as a blind person, to install Linux
36 with speech access unaided by a sighted person. Again, these details
37 are beyond the scope of this manual, but the user should be aware of
38 them. See the web site mentioned above for further details.
42 If your system administrator has installed Speakup to work with your
43 specific synthesizer by default, then all you need to do to use Speakup
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
47 system, and is if necessary powered on.
49 It is possible, however, that Speakup may have been compiled into the
50 kernel with no default synthesizer. It is even possible that your
51 kernel has been compiled with support for some of the supported
52 synthesizers and not others. If you find that this is the case, and
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
59 synthesizer set, or you would like to use a different synthesizer than
60 the default one, then you may issue the following command at the boot
61 prompt of your boot loader.
63 linux speakup.synth=ltlk
65 This command would tell Speakup to look for and use a LiteTalk or
66 DoubleTalk LT at boot up. You may replace the ltlk synthesizer keyword
67 with the keyword for whatever synthesizer you wish to use. The
68 speakup.synth parameter will accept the following keywords, provided
69 that support for the related synthesizers has been built into the
76 bns -- Braille 'n Speak
77 dectlk -- DecTalk Express (old and new, db9 serial only)
78 decext -- DecTalk (old) External
80 keypc -- Keynote Gold PC
81 ltlk -- DoubleTalk LT, LiteTalk, or external Tripletalk (db9 serial only)
84 dummy -- Plain text terminal
86 Note: Speakup does * NOT * support usb connections! Speakup also does *
87 NOT * support the internal Tripletalk!
89 Speakup does support two other synthesizers, but because they work in
90 conjunction with other software, they must be loaded as modules after
91 their related software is loaded, and so are not available at boot up.
94 decpc -- DecTalk PC (not available at boot up)
95 soft -- One of several software synthesizers (not available at boot up)
97 See the sections on loading modules and software synthesizers later in
98 this manual for further details. It should be noted here that the
99 speakup.synth boot parameter will have no effect if Speakup has been
100 compiled as modules. In order for Speakup modules to be loaded during
101 the boot process, such action must be configured by your system
102 administrator. This will mean that you will hear some, but not all, of
107 Once you have booted the system, and if necessary, have supplied the
108 proper bootup parameter for your synthesizer, Speakup will begin
109 talking as soon as the kernel is loaded. In fact, it will talk a lot!
110 It will speak all the boot up messages that the kernel prints on the
111 screen during the boot process. This is because Speakup is not a
112 separate screen reader, but is actually built into the operating
113 system. Since almost all console applications must print text on the
114 screen using the kernel, and must get their keyboard input through the
115 kernel, they are automatically handled properly by Speakup. There are a
116 few exceptions, but we'll come to those later.
118 Note: In this guide I will refer to the numeric keypad as the keypad.
119 This is done because the speakupmap.map file referred to later in this
120 manual uses the term keypad instead of numeric keypad. Also I'm lazy
121 and would rather only type one word. So keypad it is. Got it? Good.
123 Most of the Speakup review keys are located on the keypad at the far
124 right of the keyboard. The numlock key should be off, in order for these
125 to work. If you toggle the numlock on, the keypad will produce numbers,
126 which is exactly what you want for spreadsheets and such. For the
127 purposes of this guide, you should have the numlock turned off, which is
128 its default state at bootup.
130 You probably won't want to listen to all the bootup messages every time
131 you start your system, though it's a good idea to listen to them at
132 least once, just so you'll know what kind of information is available to
133 you during the boot process. You can always review these messages after
134 bootup with the command:
138 In order to speed the boot process, and to silence the speaking of the
139 bootup messages, just press the keypad enter key. This key is located
140 in the bottom right corner of the keypad. Speakup will shut up and stay
141 that way, until you press another key.
143 You can check to see if the boot process has completed by pressing the 8
144 key on the keypad, which reads the current line. This also has the
145 effect of starting Speakup talking again, so you can press keypad enter
146 to silence it again if the boot process has not completed.
148 When the boot process is complete, you will arrive at a "login" prompt.
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
152 because the password is not displayed on the screen for security
153 reasons. This has nothing to do with Speakup, it's a Linux security
156 Once you've logged in, you can run any Linux command or program which is
157 allowed by your user id. Normal users will not be able to run programs
158 which require root privileges.
160 When you are running a program or command, Speakup will automatically
161 speak new text as it arrives on the screen. You can at any time silence
162 the speech with keypad enter, or use any of the Speakup review keys.
164 Here are some basic Speakup review keys, and a short description of what
167 keypad 1 -- read previous character
168 keypad 2 -- read current character (pressing keypad 2 twice rapidly will speak
169 the current character phonetically)
170 keypad 3 -- read next character
171 keypad 4 -- read previous word
172 keypad 5 -- read current word (press twice rapidly to spell the current word)
173 keypad 6 -- read next word
174 keypad 7 -- read previous line
175 keypad 8 -- read current line (press twice rapidly to hear how much the
176 text on the current line is indented)
177 keypad 9 -- read next line
178 keypad period -- speak current cursor position and announce current
181 It's also worth noting that the insert key on the keypad is mapped
182 as the speakup key. Instead of pressing and releasing this key, as you
183 do under DOS or Windows, you hold it like a shift key, and press other
184 keys in combination with it. For example, repeatedly holding keypad
185 insert, from now on called speakup, and keypad enter will toggle the
186 speaking of new text on the screen on and off. This is not the same as
187 just pressing keypad enter by itself, which just silences the speech
188 until you hit another key. When you hit speakup plus keypad enter,
189 Speakup will say, "You turned me off.", or "Hey, that's better." When
190 Speakup is turned off, no new text on the screen will be spoken. You
191 can still use the reading controls to review the screen however.
193 3. Using the Speakup Help System
195 In order to enter the Speakup help system, press and hold the speakup
196 key (remember that this is the keypad insert key), and press the f1 key.
197 You will hear the message:
199 "Press space to leave help, cursor up or down to scroll, or a letter to
200 go to commands in list."
202 When you press the spacebar to leave the help system, you will hear:
206 While you are in the Speakup help system, you can scroll up or down
207 through the list of available commands using the cursor keys. The list
208 of commands is arranged in alphabetical order. If you wish to jump to
209 commands in a specific part of the alphabet, you may press the letter of
210 the alphabet you wish to jump to.
212 You can also just explore by typing keyboard keys. Pressing keys will
213 cause Speakup to speak the command associated with that key. For
214 example, if you press the keypad 8 key, you will hear:
216 "Keypad 8 is line, say current."
218 You'll notice that some commands do not have keys assigned to them.
219 This is because they are very infrequently used commands, and are also
220 accessible through the sys system. We'll discuss the sys system later
223 You'll also notice that some commands have two keys assigned to them.
224 This is because Speakup has a built in set of alternative key bindings
225 for laptop users. The alternate speakup key is the caps lock key. You
226 can press and hold the caps lock key, while pressing an alternate
227 speakup command key to activate the command. On most laptops, the
228 numeric keypad is defined as the keys in the j k l area of the keyboard.
230 There is usually a function key which turns this keypad function on and
231 off, and some other key which controls the numlock state. Toggling the
232 keypad functionality on and off can become a royal pain. So, Speakup
233 gives you a simple way to get at an alternative set of key mappings for
234 your laptop. These are also available by default on desktop systems,
235 because Speakup does not know whether it is running on a desktop or
236 laptop. So you may choose which set of Speakup keys to use. Some
237 system administrators may have chosen to compile Speakup for a desktop
238 system without this set of alternate key bindings, but these details are
239 beyond the scope of this manual. To use the caps lock for its normal
240 purpose, hold the shift key while toggling the caps lock on and off. We
241 should note here, that holding the caps lock key and pressing the z key
242 will toggle the alternate j k l keypad on and off.
244 4. Keys and Their Assigned Commands
246 In this section, we'll go through a list of all the speakup keys and
247 commands. You can also get a list of commands and assigned keys from
250 The following list was taken from the speakupmap.map file. Key
251 assignments are on the left of the equal sign, and the associated
252 Speakup commands are on the right. The designation "spk" means to press
253 and hold the speakup key, a.k.a. keypad insert, a.k.a. caps lock, while
254 pressing the other specified key.
256 spk key_f9 = punc_level_dec
257 spk key_f10 = punc_level_inc
258 spk key_f11 = reading_punc_dec
259 spk key_f12 = reading_punc_inc
262 spk key_3 = pitch_dec
263 spk key_4 = pitch_inc
266 key_kpasterisk = toggle_cursoring
267 spk key_kpasterisk = speakup_goto
268 spk key_f1 = speakup_help
270 spk key_f3 = clear_win
271 spk key_f4 = enable_win
272 spk key_f5 = edit_some
273 spk key_f6 = edit_most
274 spk key_f7 = edit_delim
275 spk key_f8 = edit_repeat
276 shift spk key_f9 = edit_exnum
277 key_kp7 = say_prev_line
278 spk key_kp7 = left_edge
280 double key_kp8 = say_line_indent
281 spk key_kp8 = say_from_top
282 key_kp9 = say_next_line
283 spk key_kp9 = top_edge
284 key_kpminus = speakup_parked
285 spk key_kpminus = say_char_num
286 key_kp4 = say_prev_word
287 spk key_kp4 = say_from_left
289 double key_kp5 = spell_word
290 spk key_kp5 = spell_phonetic
291 key_kp6 = say_next_word
292 spk key_kp6 = say_to_right
293 key_kpplus = say_screen
294 spk key_kpplus = say_win
295 key_kp1 = say_prev_char
296 spk key_kp1 = right_edge
298 spk key_kp2 = say_to_bottom
299 double key_kp2 = say_phonetic_char
300 key_kp3 = say_next_char
301 spk key_kp3 = bottom_edge
303 key_kpdot = say_position
304 spk key_kpdot = say_attributes
305 key_kpenter = speakup_quiet
306 spk key_kpenter = speakup_off
307 key_sysrq = speech_kill
308 key_kpslash = speakup_cut
309 spk key_kpslash = speakup_paste
310 spk key_pageup = say_first_char
311 spk key_pagedown = say_last_char
312 key_capslock = spk_key
314 key_leftmeta = spk_key
315 ctrl spk key_0 = speakup_goto
316 spk key_u = say_prev_line
318 double spk key_i = say_line_indent
319 spk key_o = say_next_line
320 spk key_minus = speakup_parked
321 shift spk key_minus = say_char_num
322 spk key_j = say_prev_word
324 double spk key_k = spell_word
325 spk key_l = say_next_word
326 spk key_m = say_prev_char
327 spk key_comma = say_char
328 double spk key_comma = say_phonetic_char
329 spk key_dot = say_next_char
330 spk 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
334 ctrl spk key_p = bottom_edge
335 spk key_apostrophe = say_screen
336 spk key_h = say_from_left
337 spk key_y = say_from_top
338 spk key_semicolon = say_to_right
339 spk key_p = say_to_bottom
340 spk key_slash = say_attributes
341 spk key_enter = speakup_quiet
342 ctrl spk key_enter = speakup_off
343 spk key_9 = speakup_cut
344 spk key_8 = speakup_paste
345 shift spk key_m = say_first_char
346 ctrl spk key_semicolon = say_last_char
348 5. The Speakup Sys System
350 The Speakup screen reader also creates a speakup subdirectory as a part
353 As a convenience, run as root
355 ln -s /sys/accessibility/speakup /speakup
357 to directly access speakup parameters from /speakup.
358 You can see these entries by typing the command:
362 If you issue the above ls command, you will get back something like
365 /speakup/attrib_bleep
374 /speakup/no_interrupt
379 /speakup/reading_punc
382 /speakup/say_word_ctl
386 /speakup/synth_direct
416 Notice the two subdirectories of /speakup: /speakup/i18n and
418 The i18n subdirectory is described in a later section.
419 The files under /speakup/soft represent settings that are specific to the
420 driver for the software synthesizer. If you use the LiteTalk, your
421 synthesizer-specific settings would be found in /speakup/ltlk. In other words,
422 a subdirectory named /speakup/KWD is created to hold parameters specific
423 to the device whose keyword is KWD.
424 These parameters include volume, rate, pitch, and others.
426 In addition to using the Speakup hot keys to change such things as
427 volume, pitch, and rate, you can also echo values to the appropriate
428 entry in the /speakup directory. This is very useful, since it
429 lets you control Speakup parameters from within a script. How you
430 would write such scripts is somewhat beyond the scope of this manual,
431 but I will include a couple of simple examples here to give you a
432 general idea of what such scripts can do.
434 Suppose for example, that you wanted to control both the punctuation
435 level and the reading punctuation level at the same time. For
436 simplicity, we'll call them punc0, punc1, punc2, and punc3. The scripts
437 might look something like this:
441 # set punc and reading punc levels to 0
442 echo 0 >/speakup/punc_level
443 echo 0 >/speakup/reading_punc
444 echo Punctuation level set to 0.
448 # set punc and reading punc levels to 1
449 echo 1 >/speakup/punc_level
450 echo 1 >/speakup/reading_punc
451 echo Punctuation level set to 1.
455 # set punc and reading punc levels to 2
456 echo 2 >/speakup/punc_level
457 echo 2 >/speakup/reading_punc
458 echo Punctuation level set to 2.
462 # set punc and reading punc levels to 3
463 echo 3 >/speakup/punc_level
464 echo 3 >/speakup/reading_punc
465 echo Punctuation level set to 3.
467 If you were to store these four small scripts in a directory in your
468 path, perhaps /usr/local/bin, and set the permissions to 755 with the
469 chmod command, then you could change the default reading punc and
470 punctuation levels at the same time by issuing just one command. For
471 example, if you were to execute the punc3 command at your shell prompt,
472 then the reading punc and punc level would both get set to 3.
474 I should note that the above scripts were written to work with bash, but
475 regardless of which shell you use, you should be able to do something
478 The Speakup sys system also has another interesting use. You can echo
479 Speakup parameters into the sys system in a script during system
480 startup, and speakup will return to your preferred parameters every time
481 the system is rebooted.
483 Most of the Speakup sys parameters can be manipulated by a regular user
484 on the system. However, there are a few parameters that are dangerous
485 enough that they should only be manipulated by the root user on your
486 system. There are even some parameters that are read only, and cannot
487 be written to at all. For example, the version entry in the Speakup
488 sys system is read only. This is because there is no reason for a user
489 to tamper with the version number which is reported by Speakup. Doing
490 an ls -l on /speakup/version will return this:
492 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 21 13:46 /speakup/version
494 As you can see, the version entry in the Speakup sys system is read
495 only, is owned by root, and belongs to the root group. Doing a cat of
496 /speakup/version will display the Speakup version number, like
500 Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Thu Oct 21 10:38:21 EDT 2004
501 synth dtlk version 1.1
503 The display shows the Speakup version number, along with the version
504 number of the driver for the current synthesizer.
506 Looking at entries in the Speakup sys system can be useful in many
507 ways. For example, you might wish to know what level your volume is set
511 # Replace KWD with the keyword for your synthesizer, E.G., ltlk for LiteTalk.
514 The number five which comes back is the level at which the synthesizer
517 All the entries in the Speakup sys system are readable, some are
518 writable by root only, and some are writable by everyone. Unless you
519 know what you are doing, you should probably leave the ones that are
520 writable by root only alone. Most of the names are self explanatory.
521 Vol for controlling volume, pitch for pitch, rate for controlling speaking
522 rate, etc. If you find one you aren't sure about, you can post a query
525 6. Changing Synthesizers
527 It is possible to change to a different synthesizer while speakup is
528 running. In other words, it is not necessary to reboot the system
529 in order to use a different synthesizer. You can simply echo the
530 synthesizer keyword to the /speakup/synth sys entry.
531 Depending on your situation, you may wish to echo none to the synth
532 sys entry, to disable speech while one synthesizer is disconnected and
533 a second one is connected in its place. Then echo the keyword for the
534 new synthesizer into the synth sys entry in order to start speech
535 with the newly connected synthesizer. See the list of synthesizer
536 keywords in section 1 to find the keyword which matches your synth.
540 As mentioned earlier, Speakup can either be completely compiled into the
541 kernel, with the exception of the help module, or it can be compiled as
542 a series of modules. When compiled as modules, Speakup will only be
543 able to speak some of the bootup messages if your system administrator
544 has configured the system to load the modules at boo time. The modules
545 can be loaded after the file systems have been checked and mounted, or
546 from an initrd. There is a third possibility. Speakup can be compiled
547 with some components built into the kernel, and others as modules. As
548 we'll see in the next section, this is particularly useful when you are
549 working with software synthesizers.
551 If Speakup is completely compiled as modules, then you must use the
552 modprobe command to load Speakup. You do this by loading the module for
553 the synthesizer driver you wish to use. The driver modules are all
554 named speakup_<keyword>, where <keyword> is the keyword for the
555 synthesizer you want. So, in order to load the driver for the DecTalk
556 Express, you would type the following command:
558 modprobe speakup_dectlk
560 Issuing this command would load the DecTalk Express driver and all other
561 related Speakup modules necessary to get Speakup up and running.
563 To completely unload Speakup, again presuming that it is entirely built
564 as modules, you would give the command:
566 modprobe -r speakup_dectlk
568 The above command assumes you were running a DecTalk Express. If you
569 were using a different synth, then you would substitute its keyword in
572 If you have multiple drivers loaded, you need to unload all of them, in
573 order to completely unload Speakup.
574 For example, if you have loaded both the dectlk and ltlk drivers, use the
576 modprobe -r speakup_dectlk speakup_ltlk
578 You cannot unload the driver for software synthesizers when a user-space
579 daemon is using /dev/softsynth. First, kill the daemon. Next, remove
580 the driver with the command:
581 modprobe -r speakup_soft
583 Now, suppose we have a situation where the main Speakup component
584 is built into the kernel, and some or all of the drivers are built as
585 modules. Since the main part of Speakup is compiled into the kernel, a
586 partial Speakup sys system has been created which we can take advantage
587 of by simply echoing the synthesizer keyword into the
588 /speakup/synth sys entry. This will cause the kernel to
589 automatically load the appropriate driver module, and start Speakup
590 talking. To switch to another synth, just echo a new keyword to the
591 synth sys entry. For example, to load the DoubleTalk LT driver,
594 echo ltlk >/speakup/synth
596 You can use the modprobe -r command to unload driver modules, regardless
597 of whether the main part of Speakup has been built into the kernel or
600 8. Using Software Synthesizers
602 Using a software synthesizer requires that some other software be
603 installed and running on your system. For this reason, software
604 synthesizers are not available for use at bootup, or during a system
605 installation process.
606 There are two freely-available solutions for software speech: Espeakup and
608 These are described in subsections 8.1 and 8.2, respectively.
610 During the rest of this section, we assume that speakup_soft is either
611 built in to your kernel, or loaded as a module.
613 If your system does not have udev installed , before you can use a
614 software synthesizer, you must have created the /dev/softsynth device.
615 If you have not already done so, issue the following commands as root:
618 mknod softsynth c 10 26
620 While we are at it, we might just as well create the /dev/synth device,
621 which can be used to let user space programs send information to your
622 synthesizer. To create /dev/synth, change to the /dev directory, and
623 issue the following command as root:
631 Espeakup is a connector between Speakup and the eSpeak software synthesizer.
632 Espeakup may already be available as a package for your distribution
633 of Linux. If it is not packaged, you need to install it manually.
634 You can find it in the contrib/ subdirectory of the Speakup sources.
635 The filename is espeakup-$VERSION.tar.bz2, where $VERSION
636 depends on the current release of Espeakup. The Speakup 3.1.2 source
637 ships with version 0.71 of Espeakup.
638 The README file included with the Espeakup sources describes the process
639 of manual installation.
641 Assuming that Espeakup is installed, either by the user or by the distributor,
642 follow these steps to use it.
644 Tell Speakup to use the "soft driver:
645 echo soft > /speakup/synth
647 Finally, start the espeakup program. There are two ways to do it.
648 Both require root privileges.
650 If Espeakup was installed as a package for your Linux distribution,
651 you probably have a distribution-specific script that controls the operation
652 of 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
655 Replace init.d with rc.d, if your distribution uses scripts located under
657 Your distribution will also have a procedure for starting daemons at
658 boot-time, so it is possible to have software speech as soon as user-space
659 daemons are started by the bootup scripts.
660 These procedures are not described in this document.
662 If you built Espeakup manually, the "make install" step placed the binary
664 Run the following command as root:
666 Espeakup should start speaking.
668 8.2. Speech Dispatcher
670 For this option, you must have a package called
671 Speech Dispatcher running on your system, and it must be configured to
672 work with one of its supported software synthesizers.
674 Two open source synthesizers you might use are Flite and Festival. You
675 might also choose to purchase the Software DecTalk from Fonix Sales Inc.
676 If you run a google search for Fonix, you'll find their web site.
678 You can obtain a copy of Speech Dispatcher from free(b)soft at
679 http://www.freebsoft.org/. Follow the installation instructions that
680 come with Speech Dispatcher in order to install and configure Speech
681 Dispatcher. You can check out the web site for your Linux distribution
682 in order to get a copy of either Flite or Festival. Your Linux
683 distribution may also have a precompiled Speech Dispatcher package.
685 Once you've installed, configured, and tested Speech Dispatcher with your
686 chosen software synthesizer, you still need one more piece of software
687 in order to make things work. You need a package called speechd-up.
688 You get it from the free(b)soft web site mentioned above. After you've
689 compiled and installed speechd-up, you are almost ready to begin using
690 your software synthesizer.
692 Now you can begin using your software synthesizer. In order to do so,
693 echo the soft keyword to the synth sys entry like this:
695 echo soft >/speakup/synth
697 Next run the speechd_up command like this:
701 Your synth should now start talking, and you should be able to adjust
702 the pitch, rate, etc.
704 9. Using The DecTalk PC Card
706 The DecTalk PC card is an ISA card that is inserted into one of the ISA
707 slots in your computer. It requires that the DecTalk PC software be
708 installed on your computer, and that the software be loaded onto the
709 Dectalk PC card before it can be used.
711 You can get the dec_pc.tgz file from the linux-speakup.org site. The
712 dec_pc.tgz file is in the ~ftp/pub/linux/speakup directory.
714 After you have downloaded the dec_pc.tgz file, untar it in your home
715 directory, and read the Readme file in the newly created dec_pc
718 The easiest way to get the software working is to copy the entire dec_pc
719 directory into /user/local/lib. To do this, su to root in your home
720 directory, and issue the command:
722 cp dec_pc /usr/local/lib
724 You will need to copy the dtload command from the dec_pc directory to a
725 directory in your path. Either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin is a good
728 You can now run the dtload command in order to load the DecTalk PC
729 software onto the card. After you have done this, echo the decpc
730 keyword to the synth entry in the sys system like this:
732 echo decpc >/speakup/synth
734 Your DecTalk PC should start talking, and then you can adjust the pitch,
735 rate, volume, voice, etc. The voice entry in the Speakup sys system
736 will accept a number from 0 through 7 for the DecTalk PC synthesizer,
737 which will give you access to some of the DecTalk voices.
739 10. Using Cursor Tracking
741 In Speakup version 2.0 and later, cursor tracking is turned on by
742 default. This means that when you are using an editor, Speakup will
743 automatically speak characters as you move left and right with the
744 cursor keys, and lines as you move up and down with the cursor keys.
745 This is the traditional sort of cursor tracking.
746 Recent versions of Speakup provide two additional ways to control the
747 text that is spoken when the cursor is moved:
748 "highlight tracking" and "read window."
749 They are described later in this section.
750 Sometimes, these modes get in your way, so you can disable cursor tracking
753 You may select among the various forms of cursor tracking using the keypad
755 Each time you press this key, a new mode is selected, and Speakup speaks
756 the name of the new mode. The names for the four possible states of cursor
757 tracking are: "cursoring on", "highlight tracking", "read window",
758 and "cursoring off." The keypad asterisk key moves through the list of
759 modes in a circular fashion.
761 If highlight tracking is enabled, Speakup tracks highlighted text,
762 rather than the cursor itself. When you move the cursor with the arrow keys,
763 Speakup speaks the currently highlighted information.
764 This is useful when moving through various menus and dialog boxes.
765 If cursor tracking isn't helping you while navigating a menu,
766 try highlight tracking.
768 With the "read window" variety of cursor tracking, you can limit the text
769 that Speakup speaks by specifying a window of interest on the screen.
770 See section 15 for a description of the process of defining windows.
771 When you move the cursor via the arrow keys, Speakup only speaks
772 the contents of the window. This is especially helpful when you are hearing
773 superfluous speech. Consider the following example.
775 Suppose that you are at a shell prompt. You use bash, and you want to
776 explore your command history using the up and down arrow keys. If you
777 have enabled cursor tracking, you will hear two pieces of information.
778 Speakup speaks both your shell prompt and the current entry from the
779 command history. You may not want to hear the prompt repeated
780 each time you move, so you can silence it by specifying a window. Find
781 the last line of text on the screen. Clear the current window by pressing
782 the key combination speakup f3. Use the review cursor to find the first
783 character that follows your shell prompt. Press speakup + f2 twice, to
784 define a one-line window. The boundaries of the window are the
785 character following the shell prompt and the end of the line. Now, cycle
786 through the cursor tracking modes using keypad asterisk, until Speakup
787 says "read window." Move through your history using your arrow keys.
788 You will notice that Speakup no longer speaks the redundant prompt.
790 Some folks like to turn cursor tracking off while they are using the
791 lynx web browser. You definitely want to turn cursor tracking off when
792 you are using the alsamixer application. Otherwise, you won't be able
793 to hear your mixer settings while you are using the arrow keys.
797 One of Speakup's more useful features is the ability to cut and paste
798 text on the screen. This means that you can capture information from a
799 program, and paste that captured text into a different place in the
800 program, or into an entirely different program, which may even be
801 running on a different console.
803 For example, in this manual, we have made references to several web
804 sites. It would be nice if you could cut and paste these urls into your
805 web browser. Speakup does this quite nicely. Suppose you wanted to
806 past the following url into your browser:
808 http://linux-speakup.org/
810 Use the speakup review keys to position the reading cursor on the first
811 character of the above url. When the reading cursor is in position,
812 press the keypad slash key once. Speakup will say, "mark". Next,
813 position the reading cursor on the rightmost character of the above
814 url. Press the keypad slash key once again to actually cut the text
815 from the screen. Speakup will say, "cut". Although we call this
816 cutting, Speakup does not actually delete the cut text from the screen.
817 It makes a copy of the text in a special buffer for later pasting.
819 Now that you have the url cut from the screen, you can paste it into
820 your browser, or even paste the url on a command line as an argument to
823 Suppose you want to start lynx and go to the Speakup site.
825 You can switch to a different console with the alt left and right
826 arrows, or you can switch to a specific console by typing alt and a
827 function key. These are not Speakup commands, just standard Linux
828 console capabilities.
830 Once you've changed to an appropriate console, and are at a shell prompt,
831 type the word lynx, followed by a space. Now press and hold the speakup
832 key, while you type the keypad slash character. The url will be pasted
833 onto the command line, just as though you had typed it in. Press the
834 enter key to execute the command.
836 The paste buffer will continue to hold the cut information, until a new
837 mark and cut operation is carried out. This means you can paste the cut
838 information as many times as you like before doing another cut
841 You are not limited to cutting and pasting only one line on the screen.
842 You can also cut and paste rectangular regions of the screen. Just
843 position the reading cursor at the top left corner of the text to be
844 cut, mark it with the keypad slash key, then position the reading cursor
845 at the bottom right corner of the region to be cut, and cut it with the
848 12. Changing the Pronunciation of Characters
850 Through the /speakup/i18n/characters sys entry, Speakup gives you the
851 ability to change how Speakup pronounces a given character. You could,
852 for example, change how some punctuation characters are spoken. You can
853 even change how Speakup will pronounce certain letters.
855 You may, for example, wish to change how Speakup pronounces the z
856 character. The author of Speakup, Kirk Reiser, is Canadian, and thus
857 believes that the z should be pronounced zed. If you are an American,
858 you might wish to use the zee pronunciation instead of zed. You can
859 change the pronunciation of both the upper and lower case z with the
860 following two commands:
862 echo 90 zee >/speakup/characters
863 echo 122 zee >/speakup/characters
865 Let's examine the parts of the two previous commands. They are issued
866 at the shell prompt, and could be placed in a startup script.
868 The word echo tells the shell that you want to have it display the
869 string of characters that follow the word echo. If you were to just
874 You would get the word hello printed on your screen as soon as you
875 pressed the enter key. In this case, we are echoing strings that we
876 want to be redirected into the sys system.
878 The numbers 90 and 122 in the above echo commands are the ascii numeric
879 values for the upper and lower case z, the characters we wish to change.
881 The string zee is the pronunciation that we want Speakup to use for the
882 upper and lower case z.
884 The > symbol redirects the output of the echo command to a file, just
885 like in DOS, or at the Windows command prompt.
887 And finally, /speakup/i18n/characters is the file entry in the sys system
888 where we want the output to be directed. Speakup looks at the numeric
889 value of the character we want to change, and inserts the pronunciation
890 string into an internal table.
892 You can look at the whole table with the following command:
894 cat /speakup/i18n/characters
896 Speakup will then print out the entire character pronunciation table. I
897 won't display it here, but leave you to look at it at your convenience.
901 Speakup has the capability of allowing you to assign or "map" keys to
902 internal Speakup commands. This section necessarily assumes you have a
903 Linux kernel source tree installed, and that it has been patched and
904 configured with Speakup. How you do this is beyond the scope of this
905 manual. For this information, visit the Speakup web site at
906 http://linux-speakup.org/. The reason you'll need the kernel source
907 tree patched with Speakup is that the genmap utility you'll need for
908 processing 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
911 the Linux source tree you are working with.
913 So ok, you've gone off and gotten your kernel source tree, and patched
914 and configured it. Now you can start manipulating keymaps.
916 You can either use the
917 /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/speakupmap.map file
918 included with the Speakup source, or you can cut and paste the copy in
919 section 4 into a separate file. If you use the one in the Speakup
920 source tree, make sure you make a backup of it before you start making
921 changes. You have been warned!
923 Suppose that you want to swap the key assignments for the Speakup
924 say_last_char and the Speakup say_first_char commands. The
925 speakupmap.map lists the key mappings for these two commands as follows:
927 spk key_pageup = say_first_char
928 spk key_pagedown = say_last_char
930 You can edit your copy of the speakupmap.map file and swap the command
931 names on the right side of the = (equals) sign. You did make a backup,
932 right? The new keymap lines would look like this:
934 spk key_pageup = say_last_char
935 spk key_pagedown = say_first_char
937 After you edit your copy of the speakupmap.map file, save it under a new
938 file name, perhaps newmap.map. Then exit your editor and return to the
941 You 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
943 would load your keymap into the sys system like this:
945 /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/genmap newmap.map
948 Remember to substitute your kernel version number for the
949 <version_number> in the above command. Also note that although the
950 above command wrapped onto two lines in this document, you should type
953 Your say first and say last characters should now be swapped. Pressing
954 speakup pagedown should read you the first non-whitespace character on
955 the line your reading cursor is in, and pressing speakup pageup should
956 read you the last character on the line your reading cursor is in.
958 You should note that these new mappings will only stay in effect until
959 you reboot, or until you load another keymap.
961 One final warning. If you try to load a partial map, you will quickly
962 find that all the mappings you didn't include in your file got deleted
963 from the working map. Be extremely careful, and always make a backup!
964 You have been warned!
966 14. Internationalizing Speakup
968 Speakup indicates various conditions to the user by speaking messages.
969 For instance, when you move to the left edge of the screen with the
970 review keys, Speakup says, "left."
971 Prior to version 3.1.0 of Speakup, all of these messages were in English,
972 and they could not be changed. If you used a non-English synthesizer,
973 you still heard English messages, such as "left" and "cursoring on."
974 In version 3.1.0 or higher, one may load translations for the various
975 messages via the /sys filesystem.
977 The directory /speakup/i18n contains several collections of messages.
978 Each group of messages is stored in its own file.
979 The following section lists all of these files, along with a brief description
982 14.1. Files Under the i18n Subdirectory
985 This file contains various general announcements, most of which cannot
986 be categorized. You will find messages such as "You killed Speakup",
987 "I'm alive", "leaving help", "parked", "unparked", and others.
988 You will also find the names of the screen edges and cursor tracking modes
992 See section 12 for a description of this file.
995 See section 12. Unlike the rest of the files in the i18n subdirectory,
996 this one does not contain messages to be spoken.
999 When you use the "say attributes" function, Speakup says the name of the
1000 foreground and background colors. These names come from the i18n/colors
1004 Here, you will find names of control keys. These are used with Speakup's
1005 say_control feature.
1008 This group of messages contains embedded formatting codes, to specify
1009 the type and width of displayed data. If you change these, you must
1010 preserve all of the formatting codes, and they must appear in the order
1011 used by the default messages.
1014 Here, you will find a list of names for Speakup functions. These are used
1015 by the help system. For example, suppose that you have activated help mode,
1016 and you pressed keypad 3. Speakup says:
1017 "keypad 3 is character, say next."
1018 The message "character, say next" names a Speakup function, and it
1019 comes from this function_names file.
1022 Again, key_names is used by Speakup's help system. In the previous
1023 example, Speakup said that you pressed "keypad 3."
1024 This name came from the key_names file.
1027 This file contains names for key states.
1028 Again, these are part of the help system. For instance, if you had pressed
1029 speakup + keypad 3, you would hear:
1030 "speakup keypad 3 is go to bottom edge."
1031 The speakup key is depressed, so the name of the key state is speakup.
1032 This part of the message comes from the states collection.
1034 14.2. Loading Your Own Messages
1036 The files under the i18n subdirectory all follow the same format.
1037 They consist of lines, with one message per line.
1038 Each message is represented by a number, followed by the text of the message.
1039 The number is the position of the message in the given collection.
1040 For example, if you view the file /speakup/i18n/colors, you will see the
1053 You can change one message, or you can change a whole group.
1054 To load a whole collection of messages from a new source, simply use
1056 cp ~/my_colors /speakup/i18n/colors
1057 You can change an individual message with the echo command,
1058 as shown in the following example.
1060 The Spanish name for the color blue is azul.
1061 Looking at the colors file, we see that the name "blue" is at position 1
1062 within the colors group. Let's change blue to azul:
1063 echo '1 azul' > /speakup/i18n/colors
1064 The next time that Speakup says message 1 from the colors group, it will
1065 say "azul", rather than "blue."
1067 In the future, translations into various languages will be made available,
1068 and most users will just load the files necessary for their language.
1070 14.3. No Support for Non-Western-European Languages
1072 As of the current release, Speakup only supports Western European languages.
1073 Support for the extended characters used by languages outside of the Western
1074 European family of languages is a work in progress.
1076 15. Using Speakup's Windowing Capability
1078 Speakup has the capability of defining and manipulating windows on the
1079 screen. Speakup uses the term "Window", to mean a user defined area of
1080 the screen. The key strokes for defining and manipulating Speakup
1081 windows are as follows:
1083 speakup + f2 -- Set the bounds of the window.
1084 Speakup + f3 -- clear the current window definition.
1085 speakup + f4 -- Toggle window silence on and off.
1086 speakup + keypad plus -- Say the currently defined window.
1088 These capabilities are useful for tracking a certain part of the screen
1089 without rereading the whole screen, or for silencing a part of the
1090 screen that is constantly changing, such as a clock or status line.
1092 There is no way to save these window settings, and you can only have one
1093 window defined for each virtual console. There is also no way to have
1094 windows automatically defined for specific applications.
1096 In order to define a window, use the review keys to move your reading
1097 cursor to the beginning of the area you want to define. Then press
1098 speakup + f2. Speakup will tell you that the window starts at the
1099 indicated row and column position. Then move the reading cursor to the
1100 end 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
1102 that the window ends at the indicated row and column position. If there
1103 is only one line in the window, then Speakup will tell you that the
1104 window is the specified line on the screen. If you are only defining a
1105 one line window, you can just press speakup + f2 twice after placing the
1106 reading cursor on the line you want to define as a window. It is not
1107 necessary to position the reading cursor at the end of the line in order
1108 to define the whole line as a window.
1110 16. Tools for Controlling Speakup
1112 The speakup distribution includes extra tools (in the tools directory)
1113 which were written to make speakup easier to use. This section will
1114 briefly describe the use of these tools.
1118 speakupconf began life as a contribution from Steve Holmes, a member of
1119 the speakup community. We would like to thank him for his work on the
1120 early versions of this project.
1122 This script may be installed as part of your linux distribution, but if
1123 it 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
1127 Speakupconf allows you to save and load your Speakup settings. It works
1128 by reading and writing the /sys files described above.
1130 The directory that speakupconf uses to store your settings depends on
1131 whether it is run from the root account. If you execute speakupconf as
1132 root, it uses the directory /etc/speakup. Otherwise, it uses the directory
1133 ~/.speakup, where ~ is your home directory.
1134 Anyone who needs to use Speakup from your console can load his own custom
1135 settings with this script.
1137 speakupconf takes one required argument: load or save.
1140 to save your Speakup settings, and
1142 to load them into Speakup.
1143 A second argument may be specified to use an alternate directory to
1144 load or save the speakup parameters.
1148 Charles Hallenbeck, another member of the speakup community, wrote the
1149 initial versions of this script, and we would also like to thank him for
1152 This script needs root privileges to run, so if it is not installed as
1153 part of your linux distribution, the recommended places to install it
1154 are /usr/local/sbin or /usr/sbin.
1156 Talkwith allows you to switch synthesizers on the fly. It takes a synthesizer
1157 name as an argument. For instance,
1159 causes Speakup to use the DecTalk Express. If you wish to switch to a
1160 software synthesizer, you must also indicate which daemon you wish to
1161 use. There are two possible choices:
1162 spd and espeakup. spd is an abbreviation for speechd-up.
1163 If you wish to use espeakup for software synthesis, give the command
1164 talkwith soft espeakup
1165 To use speechd-up, type:
1167 Any arguments that follow the name of the daemon are passed to the daemon
1168 when it is invoked. For instance:
1169 talkwith espeakup --default-voice=fr
1170 causes espeakup to use the French voice.
1171 Note that talkwith must always be executed with root privileges.
1173 Talkwith does not attempt to load your settings after the new
1174 synthesizer is activated. You can use speakupconf to load your settings
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