Am 16.02.19 um 08:39 schrieb Daniel M. Capella via arch-general: > On February 16, 2019 2:32:43 AM EST, "Daniel M. Capella" <polyzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> As mentioned earlier in this thread, upstream (espeakup, etc.) has to >> be engaged: >> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2019-February/046055.html >> >> -- >> Best, >> polyzen > > Note that we could patch around this, but upstream support would be best. > > -- > Best, > polyzen > Hello, What is it that upstream should do? As far as I can see, brltty already supports dynamic loading of speech plugins. (see e.g. the --speech-driver paramter) The only problem seems to be that espeak-ng includes some compatibility files that conflict with the espeak package and prevent parallel installation. Wouldn't it be sufficient to split those two files into an espeak-ng-compat package? usr/bin/espeak usr/include/espeak/speak_lib.h -- progandy