Re: New features for speakup

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Hi,

Sorry if this seems ungreatful, but why are you posting this without patches or kernel packages? In other words, I, as with many others, would be very interested in your work, but how are we supposed to try it? As you know, the point of free software is to make your work freely available for anyone to hack on and use, whether that's in git, a tar archive, etc. You say you have a modified 4.5 kernel, but for what distro? I've built kernels before and I don't mind applying your patches, but how and where do I find them? It sounds like you obviously care about Speakup and put a lot of time into it, but as Samuel says, we don't want your work to get lost. If there are bugs, let the community work on fixing them. I'm afraid it's vaporware. I don't mean to sound negative, but I've seen too many cases of great feature lists but no actual code. All that said, I would really like to try your modified kernel if there is a way to get it. I could possibly provide hosting for you if that's an issue. Feel free to write to the address in my signature. Thanks for your work and I'm sure all of us are eagerly awaiting your code releases and patches!

On 5/5/2016 4:06 PM, David wrote:
It's been awhile since I contributed nine years!
I have a David modified version for 4.5.0 kernels which has the following
added features. Per screen synth variables so Darlene and I don't fight
over punctuation, rate etc. A variable can be set to multi so each
console can have its own settings. Also multiple cut and paste buffers.
One is local, to each console and three global ones like the current cut and
paste buffer. Also for those of us in software where people like code
properly indented, a say indent feature which says how far the line is
indented. Also you can read the contents of any of the paste buffers
in case you forget what is in them. Also changed rate/pitch variables
so instead of them being a number, the words per minute or absolute
pitch values are spoken.  The next thing I am working is to get away from
requiring an on-board uart and instead, use any serial/usb device
available in the initial dev-fs. Yes, it will use evil writes to kernel
space devices and the purests will stone me maybe. But on-board uarts are
becoming rare and pci-express serial cards ought to be useful.
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