On 5/9/25 11:32 AM, Michael Prokop wrote:
- 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?
Personally, I would need the following:
1. Kernel module speakup
2. Kernel module speakup_ltlk
3. kernel module speakup_soft
4. espeakup program/package
The espeakup program has to be running for the kernel to access a text to speech engine for software speech.
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?
For most users, this would be sufficient:
1. Kernel module speakup
2. Kernel module speakup_soft
3. Espeakup program/package
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?
I am pretty sure it is at 1:00 Eastern. It is confusing though. The meeting was created by somebody in the Central time sone so that's why it says 12:00. That's his time but it's 1:00 PM Eastern. I'll send the organizer an email just to be absolutely sure
I am starting to think those people who say the entire planet should have one time zone are on to something. If I have to get used to 3:00 AM being lunch time, so be it.