On 08/07/2022 13:18, Stefan Esser wrote:
Am 08.07.22 um 12:53 schrieb Hans Petter Selasky:
Hi,
Here is the complete patch for Voice-Over in the FreeBSD console:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35754
You need to install espeak from pkg and then install the
/etc/devd/accessibility.conf file and then run sysctl
kern.vt.accessibility.enable=1 after booting the new kernel.
It is freaking awesome!
There might be some bugs, but it worked fine for me!
The espeak port is marked for deletion on 2022-06-30 (but has
not been deleted, yet):
DEPRECATED= Last release in 2014 and deprecated upstream
EXPIRATION_DATE=2022-06-30
There is espeak-ng, which took over the sources, and I have
prepared a port update.
Many years ago, I added the speech synthesis APIs from OS X to GNUstep
using flite:
https://www.freshports.org/audio/flite/
flite it small (the port contains separate .so and .a files for each
voice, a minimal version needs only one), has no dependencies outside of
the base system, and is permissively licensed. I haven't used it for a
while (apparently it's had a new major release since I last did), but I
was happily using it for text-to-speech on FreeBSD 10-15 years ago and
it is still in ports.
David
