Bug#169255: RFP: kernel-patch-speakup -- A screen reader for the Linux Kernel

[Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : kernel-patch-speakup
  Version         : 1.00 (or latest CVS)
  Upstream Author : Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan
* URL             : http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html
* License         : GPL
  Description     : A screen reader for the Linux Kernel

   Speakup is a screen review package for the Linux operating system.

   It allows you to interact with applications and the GNU/Linux
   operating system with audible feedback from the console using a
   synthetic speech device.

   Speakup allows you to navigate around the screen using the typical
   screen review functions such as say word, say line, announce cursor
   position, which console your currently on, and much, much more. It
   also allows one to load in configuration parameters for controlling
   various aspects of the synthesizer you are using, as well as speakup
   itself.

   Currently, the following synthesizers are supported by speakup:
     * DoubleTalk PC/LT
     * LiteTalk
     * Accent PC/SA
     * Speakout
     * Artic Transport
     * Audapter
     * Braille 'N Speak / Type 'N Speak
     * Dectalk External and Express
     * the Apollo2

So ideally, we're looking for some person who owns one device from
that list, because speakup can currently not be used without special
hardware.  Maybe just producing a kernel-patch-speakup package and
looking if users have problems is enough, but from first glance, the
speakup install-process is very different from what a kernel patch
normally does (at least to me), so it may be a substantial piece of work.

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