Brltty and Speakup

Charles Hallenbeck chuckh at mhonline.net
Wed Sep 26 19:25:12 EDT 2001


Adam -

I once installed Linux with speakup for a guy with a braille display,
and on his system brltty aND SPEAKUP WORKED TOGETHER JUST FINE. hIS
SYNTHESIZER WAS A DOUBLETALK INTERNAL CARD.

cHUCK
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Adam Myrow
wrote:

> Has anybody ever tried to run Brltty and Speakup together?  I have a
> PowerBraille 80 on my machine and think it would be neat to use it under
> Linux.  However, I am not willing to give up the great speech support of
> Speakup.  I know that in the Microsoft world of DOS and Windows, there are
> plenty of screen readers that have both speech and Braille support, but
> they aren't common under Linux.  I am wondering if I can expect conflicts
> between Speakup and Brltty.  Speakup uses a Type 'N Speak on /dev/ttyS0
> and the PB80 would be on /dev/ttyS1.  Thanks in advance for any
> information.
>
>
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