Good summary! Just an additional note: the speakup kernel driver can be used with a hardware synthesizer, without any software synthesizer. Cheers, Didier Le 05/10/2020 à 16:10, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Honestly, I can't blame the OP for getting the name wrong, there are > quite a number of packages that work together with rather confusing > names. > > That said, he's a break down for the OP: > > 1. speakup is a kernel module that provides screenreader > functionality, but which is rather useless on its own. > 2. espeak is one of several text-to-speech engines available for > Linux. Technically deprecated and superceded by espeak-ng, but not > quite everything that uses it has migrated yet. > 3. espeakup serves as a bridge between speakup and espeak, allowing > the former to use the latter to actually synthesize what it's reading. > > All three combined form what is probably the most widely used > accessibility stack on talking, command-line only Linux systems, but > are far from the only option available. Unfortunately, because of > their similar names, people frequently refer to the whole stack by one > of it's components or get the names of different components mixed up > and even I sometimes get confused as to whether a poster is talking > about the stack as a whole, one of its components, or which component > they're talking about. > > To add to the confusion, there's also speechd-up, which serves a > similar purpose to espeakup, but bridges speakup to speech-dispatcher, > itself a bridge that provides a consistent interface between screen > readers and speech synths, and there's piespeakup, a fork of espeakup > written for the Raspberry Pi to get around some bugs in the Pi's sound > system. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list