Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:18:59 UTC
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. I had asked a member of the portmgr team whether it would be preferred if the espeak port was updated to use sources from the espeak-ng repository (the version numbers continue from the last espeak release), or whether if I should create a new port for espeak-ng. But I have not got any response on that question ... The current status of the espeak-ng port is that it generates WAV output, but it does not work with the sound system in FreeBSD, anymore. The 2 sound options available in the espeak port seem to no longer be supported. I did not have time to look into this issue, but I do assume that the sound output from the old espeak code could easily be restored in espeak-ng. Regards, STefan PS: A compressed tar of the WIP espeak-ng port is attached, in case you are interested. I expect it to be stripped off in the mail list ...