This manual documents Gnome Speech SpeechD Driver, version 0.1.
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gnome-speech-speechd-driver is a very simple driver for Gnome
Speech allowing it to use Speech Dispatcher's services. One of the
main applications using Gnome Speech is the Gnopernicus screen
reader. For more information about Speech Dispatcher, please
See section `Top' in the documentation of Speech Dispatcher.
If you used your distribution packaging system to install it, there
should be nothing else you need to configure. See the attached file
INSTALL if you are installing the driver from source code.
Once the driver is installed, you can set it up in Gnopernicus by going to the menu Settings/Speech/Voices. Please note there is a bug in Gnopernicus in the default settings of rate and pitch. You might hear a funny voice from Speech Dispatcher at first. This can be fixed by manually setting the default values of rate and pitch to it's minimum in this dialog, and when the voice gets to normal, you can fine tune them.
You can set default parameter values (e.g. language and default
synthesizer) in the configuration of Speech Dispatcher using this
driver's connection key: unknown:gnomespeech:main. A mask for
gnomespeech.conf in Speech Dispatcher might thus look
e.g. *:gnomespeech:*.
Please ask questions, send suggestions and report bugs on
speechd@lists.freebsoft.org.