New features for speakup

[Gregory Nowak]

That sounds like quite a feature set, at least a couple of which I'll
find useful. The ability to use pci/usb serial ports is something a
lot of us including myself are looking forward to. Thanks for those
contributions.

Greg


On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 07:06:33PM -0400, David wrote:
> It's been awhile since I contributed nine years!
> I have a David modified version for 4.5.0 kernels which has the following
> added features. Per screen synth variables so Darlene and I don't fight
> over punctuation, rate etc. A variable can be set to multi so each
> console can have its own settings. Also multiple cut and paste buffers.
> One is local, to each console and three global ones like the current cut and
> paste buffer. Also for those of us in software where people like code
> properly indented, a say indent feature which says how far the line is
> indented. Also you can read the contents of any of the paste buffers
> in case you forget what is in them. Also changed rate/pitch variables
> so instead of them being a number, the words per minute or absolute
> pitch values are spoken.  The next thing I am working is to get away from
> requiring an on-board uart and instead, use any serial/usb device
> available in the initial dev-fs. Yes, it will use evil writes to kernel
> space devices and the purests will stone me maybe. But on-board uarts are
> becoming rare and pci-express serial cards ought to be useful.
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