Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console

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