Re: Orca Spoken boot

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Well, Speech Dispatcher is started by init (as well as other services
> such as apache etc.).  This is, however, far from having a speech
> enabled boot process, since these services are started at the very end
> of booting.  This is the playground for Speakup, but you can't rely on
> any user-space speech synthesis system.
>   

Right, but in Ubuntu we are redesigning the whole boot process to no 
longer use init so we can bring speakup and speech dispatcher up very 
early. A few other things obviously have to come up first, but it can 
certainly come up before things like Apache or X and item that happen 
before SD is loaded can still be read out from the boot message log.

See Scott's recent blogs about 'upstart':
http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart.html
http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart2.html

And see BootMessageLogging:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootMessageLogging

- Henrik