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

[John G. Heim]

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.