It doesn't matter what distro you use, it's in the linux kernel. You
have to patch the kernel code to make speakup work with many hardware
synths including the litetalk.
I wrote instructions for building a patched debian kernel. I know these
instructions don't directly apply to you but maybe you can use them to
patch the code for your kernel. The key is to comment out one line in a
source code module in the speakup code:
http://www.iavit.org/~john/debian/build.html
On 02/06/2015 07:37 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I was trying to install a current version of slackware using the litetalk
synthesizer earlier. Given slackware's installer kernel is broken, I got
some remote sighted assistance and was told wait 30 seconds then key in
boot parameters and that fails persistently insofaras getting speech up.
So apparently slackware and Fedora have something in common. In both
cases an installer interested in doing an accessible installation needs to
find and download an earlier version of the operating systems that did
install accessibly and use that version to install then upgrade through
the versions to get to current versions. Moonshine on Fedora worked on
intel machines in the past and if my memory is correct, maybe slackware
11.2 ought to be able to get it done in this case. What I will do now is
take a stab at getting slackware 11.2 to speak and if that fails as time
and my download quotas permit will try other versions in the future. This
is now a low priority back burner project. I was surprised the
distribution got broken in this way.
jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Twitter: @JudeDaShiell
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