Re: [orca-list] OT: Anybody know what happened to speakup?

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

Do you have an address for the speakup email list?  Just today I sent a 
subscribe request to speakup-request linux-speakup org and it bounced.

I am pretty sure there are no speakup modules in the 5.11 kernel for 
Ubuntu Hirsute. Saying, "modprobe speakup_ltlk" says the module is not 
found. And "locate speakup_ltlk.ko" returns nothing. Grepping 
/boot/config* for SPEAKUP yields nothing. All of these things work on 
Debian bullseye with their 5.10 kernel.

Well, anyway, thanks to your tip, it finally occured to me to compare my 
Debian machine to my Ubuntu machine and now I know it's not a speakup 
problem, it's Ubuntu.

This is bad for me though. I manage a beowulf cluster for the Math 
department at the University of Wisconsin. The researchers really like 
having the latest Ubuntu. I suppose I can get by with ssh and orca.  I 
don't know though, speakup and a hardware speech synth have saved my 
bacon more than once during my career.

On 6/11/21 1:57 PM, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> The speakup project is indeed alive and well, and thr speakup list was 
> down but
> is back on line.
>
> Indeed the speakup kernel driver are still there, but it depends on the
> distribution to provide the drivers built-in or as modules or not at all.
>
> If Ubuntu 2.04/Hirsute doesn't have kernel modules this issue issue 
> should be
> brought to Ubuntu, but are you sure they are not built-in?
>
> Here (on Slint64-14.2) I type to check:
> zgrep SPEAKUP /proc/config.gz
>
> And the output is:
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTSA=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_APOLLO=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_AUDPTR=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_BNS=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECTLK=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECEXT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_LTLK=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SPKOUT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_TXPRT=m
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DUMMY=m
>
> Cheers,
> Didier
>
>
> Le 11/06/2021 à 20:21, John G Heim via orca-list a écrit :
> > Anybody know what happened to the speakup project? I installed Ubuntu 
> > 21.04/Hirsute and it has no speakup kernel modules. I think it got 
> > moved into the main kernel source code branch lately but there should 
> > still be kernel modules, right? TI wanted to ask about that on the 
> > speakup mailing list but the list seems to be gone.
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