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

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi again John,

Meanwhile you can install fenrir which is an userspace application.

I just checked, Samuel has packaged it for hirsute.

If you need help you can ping chrys or storm in the channel #a11y on 
irc.libera.chat

Didier

Le 11/06/2021 à 21:28, John G Heim a écrit :
> 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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