* 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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