[Grml] I got Espeakup finally to work
Michael Whapples
mwhapples at aim.com
Tue Jun 2 15:23:44 CEST 2009
Before saying yes, I will just state I need to learn about debian
packaging. The only debian packages I have created have been on my own
python packages using stdeb. Any guides you would suggest for debian
packaging?
Also I will briefly mention a little about myself.
I do use speakup (I have an apollo synth on my desktop and for my laptop
I use software speech output with espeakup). I also have a Braille
display which I use brltty with.
My view on accessibility is that where ever possible it should be in the
main distro and easy to get running. When I say easy to get running I
realise it can't be fully automatic on a CD such as GRML as not all
users want it, but ideally giving the swspeak command at the boot prompt
should be enough for software speech to come up working for the user
with all language settings as they gave (IE. if the console shows german
then speech should be german). On this topic it is something I never
really worked out, why does GRML require me to type swspeak once booting
finishes as surely the start up script which gives the speech messages
(eg. "software speech has been enabled, type swspeak once booting
finishes" or something like that) could run the swspeak command for me.
Related to this, when I do grml2hd the HD installation when it starts
will not come up automatically speaking, even if I used swspeak for
install. This has caught me and I think others out in the past, as the
instructions from the speech messages tell you type swspeak once booting
finishes but the HD installation puts you at a login screen so you need
to log in first.
So I am saying yes at the moment, but I would like to know fully what is
involved before saying yes for definite.
Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Michael Whapples<mwhapples at aim.com> [20090528 12:28]:
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>> Good to hear you've got it working. While you didn't ask for it, I can
>> imagine it would be useful, would you like the swspeak script to
>> identify your language and start espeakup with the correct -V option? My
>> idea is that all this stuff should be as transparent to the user as
>> possible (IE. you've set your language, the console may be using your
>> language, so why should you need to set extra for your speech to speak
>> your language). Or would it be better to be an espeakup enhancement to
>> auto detect your language? If I get time I may look at this.
>>
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>> Any thoughts, personally I would have thought espeakup would be the
>> better place although swspeak script may be easier for me to modify.
>>
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> grml has all the relevant options for handling language stuff, so if
> espeakup just needs to be started with some special options when
> using german settings (using lang=de) with swspeak this shouldn't be
> a big deal, yes.
>
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> Michael, you seem to be very good at all the swspeak/espeakup/...
> related stuff. Are you interested in helping us in better
> integration of swspeak/espeakup/... at grml? I don't have any active
> developers working on accessibility in grml (so far I'm doing all
> that stuff on my own), so I'd highly welcome you as a contributor.
>
>
> regards,
> -mika-
>
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