Hello Jim Armantage and the Debian Accessibility List, There used to be a connector program for IBM text to speech but it's been discontinued since Squeeze, so speechd-up is now used.
>From https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/speechd-up If you want to have sound on the console with a commercial speech synthetiser, such as ibmtts, you need a connector between the speech synthetiser and the speakup_soft module. As there has not been any usable connector since Squeeze, this package has this function. It is useless if you use a free speech synthetiser as Espeak, since a connector exists and is packaged: see the espeakup package. It is also useless if you use speechd-el with Emacs. So if you want speech in console using Voxin IBM Text to Speech, you have to install speechd-up. Best regards, David On Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 8:35 AM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > But it's available! > > https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/speechd-up > > Is there a problem with your Internet connection or your > /etc/apt/sources.list file? > > Best wishes, > > David > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 8:21 AM Jim Armantage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> To D.J..J. Ring >> I tried to install speechd-up and got the following error message. >> Unable to locate package speechd-up >> I think that the problem is that speechd is in. kernel space and I don’t >> know how to install it. >> I get the same result with all the packages that connect to the console >> screen reader. >> I’m afraid that I am way out of my abilities. >> Sorry, Jim >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >
