Maybe you could do it with a USB headset. The IAVIT wordpress site,
blogs.iavit.org, has been down for a while. I just got it working again
last night. Lets see if we can get this working and post it there.
I have howtos on my space on www.iavit.org on how to build a kernel
patched for hardware synths and on how to get grub to play a tune at
boot time. The boot time tune thing is pretty cool because I have a lot
of machines in my office and I can tell which one has finished rebooting
by the tune it plays.
PS: I was getting the so-called "white screen of death" from wordpress.
I did everything on the wordpress "How to fix the white screen of death"
page but it didn't help. I finally totally reinstalled.
-- John Heim
On 04/26/2017 06:04 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Tony Baechler here.
On 4/24/2017 1:46 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
This is Luke Yelavich, reply below.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:23:19PM AEST, Linux for blind general
discussion wrote:
Screen readers cannot give boot messages anyways, with software speech.
Actually, with things set up correctly to allow the screen reader to
come up
as early as possible, yes they can.
Speakup can do this if working with a hardware speech synth from very
very
early on, which is why so many people like it, but there are ways and
means
to do siumilar with pure software, if you are willing to make your
initramfs
a little larger.
Am I correct in saying that while in theory it could be done, isn't it
impractical? Taking a standard initramfs on a standard Debian-based
system, how would you know what sound drivers to include? I'm sure
initramfs-tools doesn't do this, even if you include all modules. That
would add a huge amount of bloat, possibly running you out of memory.
You would need at least libespeak and espeakup, right?
The only way I could see this being done is if you build your own custom
initramfs for your system and sound card with your sound card drivers. I
remember there was a lot of debate about this with D-I. The smaller D-I
images would be too big with the sound card drivers. The kernel can
autodetect and load the right module, but again, almost all sound
modules would have to be included, right?
If I'm wrong, I would be interested in knowing how this can be done. As
much as I like hardware speech, I would like to move away from it so I
don't have to build a custom kernel with the Speakup patch periodically.
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