[Grml] making hardware speech work

I was wondering if the grml team would be interested in making hardware speech work in grml. I have a kernel patch that fixes a problem in the linux screen reader, speakup, to make it work with certain hardware speech synthesizers. I don't know how to get it into the actual kernel code and I haven't even tried yet. But the patch file can be downloaded here:

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/downloads/patch-2012-03-06.patch

Then you cd to your linux source dir and do this: patch -i patch-2012-03-06.patch drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.c"

If you do that, you could also include a udev rules file that starts speech automatically if certain hardware synths are connected at boot time. That file is here:

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/downloads/10-speakup.rules