* 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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