I am not a Slacware user anymore, but I think having packages available always makes life easier even if you know how to roll your own. I think the one you are missing there is speechd-up. REgards, Willem On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Michael Whapples wrote: > Hello, > I don't know how much interest this would be, but I am sure you will let > me know. I am thinking of creating slackware packages of some of the > accessibility related tools and any dependencies which are not already > in packaged formats. This would also cover any dependencies for these > packages which are not already available in slackware packages (either > from slackware or some of the alternative repositories). I have > currently made packages for espeak and speech-dispatcher (I have also > done dotconf as this is a dependency for speech-dispatcher). > > I am considering starting a project/community for this topic. Aims would > be to create and maintain SlackBuild scripts and packages as described > above, encourage mainstream projects to include accessibility as default > (eg. gnome slacky www.slacky.eu installs orca, gnome-speech as default > when doing a full install, and they have festival in the repository, but > they don't install festival as part of a full install (so orca by > default cannot output speech), I would try and encourage them to alter > this to include festival as part of a full install). Also I would try > and encourage projects to take on packages not currently included at all > and possibly maintain the package for them (eg. neither slackware or > gnome slacky have espeak, speech-dispatcher or speechd-up so there is no > way to use speakup with software synths without compiling software). I > would not intend to try and create a custom distro of slackware, as I > think it is preferrable if the accessibility is there as default, > although I wouldn't rule it out should there be a significant call for > something and it being sufficiently different that a custom distro would > make sense (eg. a slackware install disk with speakup and software > speech support, so an install can be done without a hardware synth). > > Any ideas on this? Is there call for this? > > From > Michael Whapples > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
