From nobody Fri Jul 08 12:46:58 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C06312A8E55 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2022 12:47:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (turbocat.net [88.99.82.50]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4LfY2L6TVGz3Z9t; Fri, 8 Jul 2022 12:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from [10.36.2.165] (unknown [178.232.223.95]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 757AD26007D; Fri, 8 Jul 2022 14:47:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <6be49060-6e16-275a-f2b3-89dcb0590472@selasky.org> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 14:46:58 +0200 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Subject: Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console Content-Language: en-US To: David Chisnall , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <45ACA785-05BF-496B-8D0A-AD2A4A2293D1@googlemail.com> <011CA96A-75B1-4077-A0AB-AFB7F4F851AA@googlemail.com> <187490b5-fa8a-eb70-edfc-4e5c190db03d@selasky.org> <5df6bdb3-20f3-094f-8fc2-a20368535a09@FreeBSD.org> From: Hans Petter Selasky In-Reply-To: <5df6bdb3-20f3-094f-8fc2-a20368535a09@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4LfY2L6TVGz3Z9t X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of hps@selasky.org designates 88.99.82.50 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=hps@selasky.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.30 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.996]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a:mail.turbocat.net:c]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:88.99.0.0/16, country:DE]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[selasky.org]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N 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