That is what I think as well -- and most motherboards do have serial ports, just the headers are not brought out to the back. Al Sten-Clanton <albert.e.sten_clanton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My knowledge of this business is minimal, but I thought that one > advantage of the current approach, if you can use a hardware speech > synthesizer, is that you can get at least some of the boot-up > messages--not as early as sighted folks get them, but well before > software speech can kick in. If this is true, wouldn't the proposed > change be a very builty-in reduction in non-visual access? > > Al > > On 10/08/2014 03:43 PM, Kyle wrote: > > It does appear to me that something like this will force more of Speakup > > into userspace. However, unlike others, I'm not entirely opposed to the > > idea of Speakup leaving the kernel, and I think it can only be a good > > thing, especially on newer machines, where dedicated serial ports are > > all but obsolete, and software in userspace can take better advantage of > > things like Pulseaudio and libusb, meaning more extensive software and > > hardware speech support. For example, there would no longer be a need > > for kernel modules to control speech synthesizers, and there would no > > longer be a need to have external userspace connectors such as Espeakup, > > as the entire Speakup screen reader could be moved into userspace, and > > anything that interfaces with a speech synthesizer could be either > > internal or could be a library that interfaces with a speech API like > > speech-dispatcher or others. Even better, if Speakup is moved entirely > > into userspace, it could give rise to far better access to consoles on > > *BSD and other Unix operating systems, as the code could be far more > > portable between operating systems when it doesn't have to be tied into > > a specific kernel. Just my $0.02 BSD. That's Bahamian dollars lol. > > ~Kyle > > http://kyle.tk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
