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

[Michael Prokop]

* John G. Heim [Fri May 09, 2025 at 12:23:16PM -0500]:
> 
> 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.

Alright, should not be a problem

> > > 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

Alright, also shouldn't be a problem either. Thanks!

> > > 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

So that should be 19:00 CEST then, let's see :)

> 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.

Hehe :)

regards
-mika-
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