Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 14:46:58 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console Message-ID: <6be49060-6e16-275a-f2b3-89dcb0590472@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <5df6bdb3-20f3-094f-8fc2-a20368535a09@FreeBSD.org> References: <a26455cf-0e86-7932-f9e4-f4cb013f7737@selasky.org> <45ACA785-05BF-496B-8D0A-AD2A4A2293D1@googlemail.com> <YsdPereWgzPLLMyA@phouka1.phouka.net> <ffe4e190-07bd-8873-03f7-e969ea78403a@selasky.org> <011CA96A-75B1-4077-A0AB-AFB7F4F851AA@googlemail.com> <187490b5-fa8a-eb70-edfc-4e5c190db03d@selasky.org> <c7d68d85-4a6d-b04a-142b-c4eb084d9f97@FreeBSD.org> <5df6bdb3-20f3-094f-8fc2-a20368535a09@FreeBSD.org>
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On 7/8/22 14:34, David Chisnall wrote: > On 08/07/2022 13:18, Stefan Esser wrote: >> Am 08.07.22 um 12:53 schrieb Hans Petter Selasky: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Here is the complete patch for Voice-Over in the FreeBSD console: >>> >>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35754 >>> >>> You need to install espeak from pkg and then install the >>> /etc/devd/accessibility.conf file and then run sysctl >>> kern.vt.accessibility.enable=1 after booting the new kernel. >>> >>> It is freaking awesome! >>> >>> There might be some bugs, but it worked fine for me! >> >> The espeak port is marked for deletion on 2022-06-30 (but has >> not been deleted, yet): >> >> DEPRECATED= Last release in 2014 and deprecated upstream >> EXPIRATION_DATE=2022-06-30 >> >> There is espeak-ng, which took over the sources, and I have >> prepared a port update. > > Many years ago, I added the speech synthesis APIs from OS X to GNUstep > using flite: > > https://www.freshports.org/audio/flite/ > > flite it small (the port contains separate .so and .a files for each > voice, a minimal version needs only one), has no dependencies outside of > the base system, and is permissively licensed. I haven't used it for a > while (apparently it's had a new major release since I last did), but I > was happily using it for text-to-speech on FreeBSD 10-15 years ago and > it is still in ports. > > David > Hi, I've updated my patch a little bit, so please re-fetch it. I tried: action "echo -- $text | rtprio 8 /usr/local/bin/flite_cmu_us_slt" And it doesn't sound as good as espeak :-( Do we have more of these in ports which are know to be good? --HPS
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