silence during boot

[Chris Zenchenko]

I'm looking for a way to keep Speakup from saying anything during the boot
cycle.
I have a machine configured the way I want and typically only ssh in.
Speakup keeps speaking during boot and resetting the alsamixer settings and
I need it to remain silent and to leave alsamixer settings alone.
I'm using the machine for IRLP.
I'd also be fine if there was a way to force and keep Speakup on a different
sound card.
Anything to keep it from changing audio levels and sending synthesized voice
out on my node.
Any help appreciated.
tnx

[Craig Martin]

Hi, Chris,

What a friend and i did, was to use a script like this one, put it in
/sbin, and call it in /etc/rc.local. The name of the script is spk, and
it's like this:

---

#!/bin/bash
killall -9 pulseaudio
sleep 2
aumix -v 100 -w 100 -W 100 -p 100
sleep 2
espeak -a 200 "shutting down previous speak up session. Please wait."
sleep 2
killall -9 espeakup
sleep 2
modprobe -r speakup_soft
sleep 2
espeak -a 200 "Starting Speak up. Please wait."
sleep 2
modprobe speakup_soft
sleep 2
# echo soft >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth cp /etc/soft/* /speakup/soft
# /usr/local/bin/punc3
sleep 2
espeakup
sleep 2
# /usr/local/bin/bellset
espeak -a 200 "speak up has started successfully. Thank you for waiting."
# last line.
---
what you'll need to do is replace our software synthesizer with your
preferred one, and put a numbersign befor the echo statements. Good
luck,

Craig Martin, KY0O

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[Gregory Nowak]

Post by Chris Zenchenko
I'm looking for a way to keep Speakup from saying anything during the boot
cycle.

You do this by passing quiet=1 to the speakup module. How you do that
depends on the distribution of gnu/linux you're using, and on if you
have speakup load in your initial ramdisk or not (assuming you have an
initrd). Typically, you want to create a file in /etc/modprobe.d. You
can call that file whatever you want, as long as it ends in .conf
(E.G. local.conf or speakup.conf). This file should contain the
following line:

options speakup quiet=1

Post by Chris Zenchenko
Speakup keeps speaking during boot and resetting the alsamixer settings and
I need it to remain silent and to leave alsamixer settings alone.

Hmmm, first time I've heard of speakup resetting alsamixer settings.

Post by Chris Zenchenko
I'd also be fine if there was a way to force and keep Speakup on a different
sound card.

That depends on what software synthesizer is being used, and on if you're using
espeakup, or speech-dispatcher, or something else. If you're using
espeakup, you need to export

ALSA_CARD=1

to use espeakup through the second sound card. On debian and
derivatives, you can set this up in /etc/default/espeakup.

Greg