Speakup in userspace

[Christopher Moore]

This has been an interesting thread.  Regarding input devices, could a 
user space speakup be controlled from a external numeric keypad plugged 
into a usb port?  This would depend on whether we could identify the key 
presses as coming from the external keypad.  brltty has a stable 
approach for gethering console output.  So one of the missing pieces is 
a way to control speech output.  If key presses on an external keypad 
could be routed to speakup and not available to other applications, we 
might have a relatively simple solution.

Chris
Chris