On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 02:29:22PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:

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> As of Aug. 14, 2015:
>
> ...Speakup is now part of the Linux kernel's staging tree,
> so you will find the source for its kernel modules in the
> source tarballs and git repositories of the kernel itself.
>
> http://linux-speakup.org/download.html
>

Indeed the Linux-speakup project is more a community of users with
specific accessibility needs (mostly related with visual impairments)
who has contributed code and patches to support speech synthetisers,
braille terminals, and the like in Linux. I believe most of their
patches have been included in the standard kernel tree.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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