Hi. The idea is to get access to the system as early as possible during boot.
To do this, speakup is a set of kernel modules. Since software speech is a
recent addition, and speakup is active before audio has
been configured, most users use a hardware synth for early access. In this
context, drivers are the modules that support a specific hardware synth.
Currently, my system boots with speakup using an Accent SA attached to com1.
This allows me to have access to the fsck process if it runs.
If I chose to use the software synth driver and espeakup instead, I wouldn't
get access to the system until after the fsck.
I believe the Squeeze installer will have support for software speech, but
haven't seen any recent updates on the status.
Because I own a hardware synth, speakup has allowed me to install Debian
independently since I first started using Linux.
It also allows me to debug Gnome crashes as long as I can attach to the process
from a text console.
Kenny
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:52:27PM +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will look at this website again. Last time I had started fastly then
> let the questions, because I had not understood the global idea. The
> explanations confused me, especially about drivers. But I could try
> again (with a bit more time). That's why waiting for finding more
> understandable info for me, I asked how happent a test as someone tried.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>
>
> Le mardi 24 août 2010 à 04:47 -0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit :
> > Hi. Have you visited linux-speakup.org? That is the official web site for
> > speakup.
> > Most of your questions should be answered there.
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 04:08:24AM +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> > > Hi Sam,
> > >
> > > As you know I attend to promote linux as accessibility tool. That's why
> > > I try some solutions, even these I don't use myself daily (speech in
> > > particular). That's also why I tried gnome-orca 2.30 even if I had to
> > > install testing package on my stable (Gnome 2.22) and I suspect it
> > > causes issues.
> > >
> > > I've wanted to test speakup for a long time but never understood how it
> > > works. As you tested, can you explain to me what has to be entered.
> > > speakup is included, for example, in LFS livecd and Debian, seems the
> > > only solution in such contexts. I heard of drivers... but what drivers?
> > > How can I know those supported? Is there a relationship with kernel as I
> > > see in this treead (LFS livecd has an older kernel (2008))?
> > >
> > > Actually, do you have a tutorial about this point to know what I've to
> > > enter, what are available drivers, what's the role of the kernel's
> > > release.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
> > >
> > >
> > > Le mardi 24 août 2010 à 03:11 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Ben Hutchings, le Tue 24 Aug 2010 00:35:03 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > > [Please include debian-kernel or me in replies; I'm not subscribed to
> > > > > -accessibility.]
> > > > >
> > > > > I haven't seen any bug reports regarding speakup drivers included in
> > > > > the
> > > > > Linux 2.6.32 kernel packages or testing versions of the installer.
> > > > > However I haven't seen any positive reports either. Are they working
> > > > > properly?
> > > >
> > > > I've tried the daily build yesterday, and it worked just fine.
> > > >
> > > > Samuel
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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