DecTalk External (decext) testers wanted!

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi Keith,

> On 12 Apr 2017, at 10:39, Keith Barrett <lists at barrettpianos.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I am going to do a fresh install of debian on a spare drive to test the patches.
> 
> Are your instructions the same for am64 and i386 kernels?
Yes

> 
> Also, the default speech rate is too slow for me so can I set a higher default rate during the process?  If so, how do I do this?
Not exactly sure if this was a restriction from before? The changes I have submitted don't  address speech rate specifically.

May be someone else can shed some light here?

> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> On 12/04/17 09:07, Okash Khawaja wrote:
>> Also, these steps can be used to test all the synths and not just decext. The speakup.tgz archive contains all the patches I last submitted.
>> 
>> So please use these steps to test other synths too!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Okash
>> 
>>> On 11 Apr 2017, at 19:49, Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Please be careful at step 4 as it may break your system. Even on
>>> Debian based system, the steps I have mentioned are no guarantee that
>>> they will not break your system.
>>> 
>>> Also, you can also access the instructions from here:
>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bytefire/speakup-decext/master/decext-instructions.txt
>>> 
>>> Cheers!
>>> Okash
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Here are the steps in detail. Before starting this, please download
>>>> following two files that I have shared:
>>>> - speakup.tgz:
>>>> https://github.com/bytefire/speakup-decext/raw/master/speakup.tgz
>>>> - tty-export.patch:
>>>> https://github.com/bytefire/speakup-decext/raw/master/tty-export.patch
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Download Linux kernel code:
>>>> a. download stable kernel source from
>>>> https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.10.9.tar.xz
>>>> b. extract the archive by running: tar xvfJ linux-4.10.9.tar.xz
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Apply patches:
>>>> a. cd into the extracted linux source code: cd linux-4.10.9
>>>> b. remove speakup directory: rm -r drivers/staging/speakup
>>>> c. copy the speakup.tgz file into drivers/staging: cp
>>>> path/to/speakup.tgz drivers/staging/
>>>> d. cd into staging directory: cd drivers/staging
>>>> e. extractspeakup.tgz: tar xvfz speakup.tgz
>>>> (now there should be a speakup directory inside drivers/staging)
>>>> f. cd back to the root of kernel source (i.e. linux-4.10.9) : cd ../..
>>>> g. apply the tty patch: patch -p1 < path/to/tty-export.patch
>>>> (output of above should be following three lines:
>>>> patching file drivers/tty/tty_io.c
>>>> patching file drivers/tty/tty_port.c
>>>> patching file include/linux/tty.h)
>>>> (if you don't already have 'patch' program then you can download it
>>>> from http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch/)
>>>> h. now we have the code ready for configuring and compiling!
>>>> 
>>>> 3. Configure:
>>>> a. make sure you are inside kernel source root directory, i.e. linux-4.10.9
>>>> b. make sure that existing kernel config exists: ls /boot/config-$(uname -r)
>>>> (this should return just one file named config-<your-kernel-version>)
>>>> c. copy that file into your kernel source root directory: cp
>>>> /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./.config
>>>> d. update the config: make oldconfig
>>>> (this will ask you many questions. just select the default option for
>>>> each by pressing enter)
>>>> e. check to make sure that speakup is configured the way you wanted
>>>> it: cat .config | grep SPEAKUP
>>>> e. that's it, kernel configured!
>>>> 
>>>> 4. Compile and install:
>>>> (IMPORTANT: for this please check an online guide specific for your distro.
>>>> following instructions that i think should work on Debian based
>>>> system. but it may
>>>> a. still stayin inside linux-4.10.9, compile by simply running: make
>>>> (this will take a while. depending on the hardware specs, it may take
>>>> an hour or may be more)
>>>> b. after make completes, check it succeeded: echo $?
>>>> (this should return zero)
>>>> c. now run: sudo make modules_install
>>>> (again this may take a little while)
>>>> d. now install kernel which should be quick: sudo make install
>>>> (NOTE: this means that on next reboot your newly compiled kernel will load)
>>>> (Depending on your distro, it should back up previous kernel)
>>>> 
>>>> 5. Reboot and test decext:
>>>> a. now running reboot should boot the compiled kernel
>>>> b. if speakup configuration was same as before, then you should be
>>>> able to test it with decext the same way as before.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Okash
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> As part of recent changes, there are some that affect DecTalk External
>>>>> which uses speakup_decext.ko. If someone can help in making sure those
>>>>> changes are okay, do give a shout.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers!
>>>>> Okash
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