Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:34:46 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console Message-ID: <5df6bdb3-20f3-094f-8fc2-a20368535a09@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <c7d68d85-4a6d-b04a-142b-c4eb084d9f97@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>
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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
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