Hi Mario, On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:23:31PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > > I've recently recognized that we no longer have a speakup-enabled > > kernel, and I'm willing to work on the kernel team side to bring it > > back for Lenny. > > Great, I'd be very happy to see a volunteer working > on this, since speakup has a quite large user base in > the blind linux users community... > > Back when I was still maintaining a speakup enabled kernel > in Debian, I bought a hardware speech synthesizer especially > for testing speakup support for it. If you are really going to work on > speakup > in Debian, I can provide that hardware to you for testing purposes since these > days, you can't even buy those things anymore. However, many > people still have them, and would like to continue using them instead > of software speech synthesis. Besides, using hardware speech > synthesis in speakup does enable a very cool feature > for blind users, i.e. being able to review the screen even > after a kernel crash or panic.
Thanks for your kind offer. I'm scheduled to move in about a week, so I'll be forced to take a leave from Debian work for a while (in the worst case scenario it will probably take a couple of months). We can discuss the speakup issues when I get back. Thanks, -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
