Hi people,
I think I just sent a private message which ought to have gone to the list.
I have been using a script called "speakwith" which takes as an argument a synth name as defined by speakup, including none, sftsyn, and all the HW synth names. It assumes speech-dispatcher has already been run, but that could easily be modified if anyone wants to do that. I place it in /usr/local/sbin so that it must be run as root. It works great for me, and might be useful as an add-on to grml. The script is available from:
http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh/speakwith
It is pretty well documented. Oh yes, I should mention that at the end of the script it invokes "speakupconf load" to restore synth settings Thant have been saved with that utility, available in the speakup source directory somewhere.
Enjoy.
And Mika, thanks for a great product. It has saved my ass a couple of times here (or "neck" if you prefer)
Regards, Chuck