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.
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.
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Systems-Facing call, 2025-05-15 @ 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Topic: Accessibility Tools for Linux System Administrators
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overview of console and graphical screen readers like Speakup
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