[Grml] Customizing GRML to start speech as early as possible

[Michael Prokop]

* 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-
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