Re: Fwd: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Martin McCormick
d snappy console screen reader that responds quickly and helps me trouble-shoot when things go South but there is a good argument for a good graphical interface screen reader too. Nobody should have to choose these days. Martin McCormick Jeffery Mewtamer writes: > Sorry if any

Handling Slow Serial Input

2019-10-09 Thread Martin McCormick
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Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-24 Thread Martin McCormick
I can't count the number of times I have said, to myself, "Speech/Braille/you name it; should be in some kind of low-level jail on a computer that starts before anything else does and is the last thing to go dark before the power goes off." Petitboot is what I was thinking of even if I ca

Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Wow! Thanks. As I said in an earlier message, I dodged the bullet this time in that I should be able to protect the old development system with a chroot jail. The assembler and debugger/emulator that won't make in newer versions of debian should still work and, assuming I can get a serial port t

Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks very much. I suspected that but it looks like I don't have to make a duel-boot system afterall. Someone on the debian list suggested I use a chroot jail to encapsulate the old distribution which, in this case, should solve the problem I was trying to solve in the first place. If i

Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-23 Thread Martin McCormick
The less extra hardware needed to read grub's output, the better off we are and I am aware that very little resources are operational when grub is working. Thanks Martin McCormick

Re: An espeak question

2019-04-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I see I have accidentally sent this message on both the debian-accessibility and speakup lists so my apologies. Thanks and I will give your suggestion a try. You can even send multiple streams to the playback-only sound device on the raspberry Pi. Since there ar

An espeak question

2019-04-02 Thread Martin McCormick
The older PC's I have for Linux are great and now speakup works as it should so I have a new question. When the espeak engine is not processing text to speech, is the sound device, usually card 0, really free to use for normal sound activities? It seems to be but sometimes, the la

Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup? It Works!

2019-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
After getting the path in the correct place in /lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service, the upgrade works just like it should. If you want the system to boot talking, you also need a line containing nothing more than espeakup in your /etc/rc.local script. A word about /etc/rc

Re: Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

2019-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
Samuel Thibault writes: > As I already wrote several times: > > fix the issue by hand in /lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service, by adding > /bin/ to > > ExecStart=sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bin/espeakup -V ${VOICE}' > > so it looks like > > ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'modprobe speakup_soft

Re: Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

2019-04-01 Thread Martin McCormick
thought it was kind of fun but sometimes one is ready to straighten out a horse shoe without a forge. Martin McCormick

Re: Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

2019-03-31 Thread Martin McCormick
I really messed up. Samuel sent a message to me through the list with the git hub address for espeakup to build and install. I deleted that message by accident while moving mail from the speakup list to where I save the important messages. I even checked backups from yesterday and had done this