Hi, Some other dependencies for software speech would be: The espeak-ng package sound hardware configured and volume set to 3/4 volume for Mastre and PCM options.
I don't know how hard this would be to do, the Debian installer has this functionality and if there's a way you could look at this you'd have a place to look as their install has had this for a few versions now working properly. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Grml <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John G. Heim Sent: Friday, May 9, 2025 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Grml] Customizing GRML to start speech as early as possible 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. >> 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 >> 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 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. _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] https://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/ _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] https://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/
