software speech for speakup

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

IMHO, getting sound at boot time is not the major problem, though it is at
present with ALSA (but I'm sure something could be done about that).  The
problem is getting at the module so itt could be loaded off a file system
... if the synth were a module.  What if it were small enough to fit in the
kernel itself?  Wacky idea, but it may end up small enough.  At present,
rsynth is pretty small (though it does use 4 dynamically linked libs so
it's hard to tell how big its actual size is).

Geoff.