* John G. Heim [Wed May 07, 2025 at 01:42:23PM -0500]:
On 5/7/25 12:14 PM, Michael Prokop wrote:
To clarify the situation: for *you* only "modprobe speakup" is relevant, or do you use any of the specific modules like speakup_dectlk?
Do *you* need anything other than just "modprobe speakup_soft" or alike to get it working/useful for your situation?
I mostly use the Litetalk driver, speakup_ltlk. But to use a hardware synth, you have to have a machine with a serial port. This is another reason supporting hardware speech synths is more work than it is worth. My blind friends say the machines they work on do not have serial ports. So far, that has not been a problem for me. Even my desktop has a serial port. When I ordered the mobo, I just made sure it had a serial port header block.
Alright, And you don't need anything extra like espeakup or alike, but that might be relevant for users without hardware like yours?
BTW, if you are interested, I'll be giving a talk a week from today on being a blind systems admin to the Campus Research Computing Consortium (https://carcc.org). Meeting details below. I will probably mention GRML but I won't spend a lot of time on it since i have so much to cover.
That sounds interesting. :) Did I understand the date/timezone right, that your zoom meeting starts at 12:00 PM in ET (Eastern Time), corresponding to 6:00 PM AKA 18:00 CEST?
regards -mika-