Major modification to Speakup

Brent Harding bharding at ufw2.com
Sun Jan 14 22:35:34 EST 2001


Is it yet possible to boot without speech, then enable it later? Suppose
I'm at a machine using my dectalk express, but this system just might
happen to reboot when I've tak
en the dectalk back when I'm done with the machine, but down time would
matter.u wrote:
>I have just finished modifying Speakup so that multiple synthesizer
>drivers can be included in the kernel, and you can choose which
>synthesizer you want (or no synth at all) as a boot parameter.  You
>can set the default synthesizer in the kernel configuration and then
>override the default with the speakup_synth parameter at boot time.  A
>synthesizer choice of "none" results in no speech (an especially
>useful default for kernels that will be used by sighted people as well
>as blind people).  This modification will enable Linux distribution
>makers to include Speakup in their distributions with little or no
>difficulty.
>
>-- 
>Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>  ICQ #:  33005941
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