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Hi list, |
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I have created a modified version of the latest Gentoo ISO with speakup |
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support compiled in. |
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Just as a bit of background, speakup is a kernel module which compiles in to |
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2.4 series kernels and provides speech output for users who are blind. It |
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does this by sending text that is sent to the screen to a speech synthesizer |
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either connected to a serial port, or as a PCI / ISA card which basically |
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emulates a serial port anyway. |
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You can get more information about the speakup patches at |
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www.linux-speakup.org |
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What I was thinking, is it would be extremely cool if we could get this |
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included as part of the standard installation images. |
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You can compile speakup into a kernel and the system will still run |
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perfectly fine with out speech hardware attached. you need to activate the |
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speech hardware by passing a few kernel parameters at boot time like |
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speakup_synth=ltlk |
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Would it be terribly difficult to get this included in the standard distrib? |
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I would be more than happy to help to achieve this, if it is possible. |
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At the moment only RedHat 8.0 supports speakup out of the box, all of the |
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other distributions, slackware, Debian, etc require that you use modified |
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install disks to be able to install the system. It would be great to have |
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an alternative to the dreaded RedHat for those of us who use the speakup |
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system. |
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Feedback or questions would be most welcome. |
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>From Mitchell |
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