Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt

16 Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
25 http://linux-speakup.org/.  Speakup is a set of patches to the standard
72 acntsa -- Accent SA
73 acntpc -- Accent PC
74 apollo -- Apollo
75 audptr -- Audapter
76 bns -- Braille 'n Speak
77 dectlk -- DecTalk Express (old and new, db9 serial only)
78 decext -- DecTalk (old) External
79 dtlk -- DoubleTalk PC
80 keypc -- Keynote Gold PC
81 ltlk -- DoubleTalk LT, LiteTalk, or external Tripletalk (db9 serial only)
82 spkout -- Speak Out
83 txprt -- Transport
84 dummy -- Plain text terminal
93 decpc -- DecTalk PC (not available at boot up)
94 soft -- One of several software synthesizers (not available at boot up)
129 right of the keyboard.  The numlock key should be off, in order for these
144 bootup messages, just press the keypad enter key.  This key is located
146 that way, until you press another key.
149 key on the keypad, which reads the current line.  This also has the
150 effect of starting Speakup talking again, so you can press keypad enter
172 keypad 1 -- read previous character
173 keypad 2 -- read current character (pressing keypad 2 twice rapidly will speak
175 keypad 3 -- read next character
176 keypad 4 -- read previous word
177 keypad 5 -- read current word (press twice rapidly to spell the current word)
178 keypad 6 -- read next word
179 keypad 7 -- read previous line
180 keypad 8 -- read current line (press twice rapidly to hear how much the
182 keypad 9 -- read next line
183 keypad period -- speak current cursor position and announce current
186 It's also worth noting that the insert key on the keypad is mapped
187 as the speakup key.  Instead of pressing and releasing this key, as you
188 do under DOS or Windows, you hold it like a shift key, and press other
193 until you hit another key.  When you hit speakup plus keypad enter,
200 In order to enter the Speakup help system, press and hold the speakup
201 key (remember that this is the keypad insert key), and press the f1 key.
204 "Press space to leave help, cursor up or down to scroll, or a letter to
207 When you press the spacebar to leave the help system, you will hear:
214 commands in a specific part of the alphabet, you may press the letter of
218 cause Speakup to speak the command associated with that key.  For
219 example, if you press the keypad 8 key, you will hear:
229 This is because Speakup has a built in set of alternative key bindings
230 for laptop users.  The alternate speakup key is the caps lock key.  You
231 can press and hold the caps lock key, while pressing an alternate
232 speakup command key to activate the command.  On most laptops, the
235 There is usually a function key which turns this keypad function on and
236 off, and some other key which controls the numlock state.  Toggling the
238 gives you a simple way to get at an alternative set of key mappings for
243 system without this set of alternate key bindings, but these details are
245 purpose, hold the shift key while toggling the caps lock on and off.  We
246 should note here, that holding the caps lock key and pressing the z key
255 The following list was taken from the speakupmap.map file.  Key
257 Speakup commands are on the right.  The designation "spk" means to press
258 and hold the speakup key, a.k.a. keypad insert, a.k.a. caps lock, while
259 pressing the other specified key.
361 ln -s /sys/accessibility/speakup /speakup
366 ls -1 /speakup/*
428 synthesizer-specific settings would be found in /speakup/ltlk.  In other words,
497 an ls -l on /speakup/version will return this:
499 -r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 Mar 21 13:46 /speakup/version
507 Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Thu Oct 21 10:38:21 EDT 2004
573 modprobe -r speakup_dectlk
583 modprobe -r speakup_dectlk speakup_ltlk
585 You cannot unload the driver for software synthesizers when a user-space
588 modprobe -r speakup_soft
603 You can use the modprobe -r command to unload driver modules, regardless
613 There are two freely-available solutions for software speech: Espeakup and
642 The filename is espeakup-$VERSION.tar.bz2, where $VERSION
658 you probably have a distribution-specific script that controls the operation
665 boot-time, so it is possible to have software speech as soon as user-space
694 in order to make things work.  You need a package called speechd-up.
696 compiled and installed speechd-up, you are almost ready to begin using
718 You can get the dec_pc.tgz file from the linux-speakup.org site.  The
761 asterisk key.
762 Each time you press this key, a new mode is selected, and Speakup speaks
765 and "cursoring off."  The keypad asterisk key moves through the list of
789 the key combination speakup f3.  Use the review cursor to find the first
790 character that follows your shell prompt.  Press speakup + f2 twice, to
791 define a one-line window.  The boundaries of the window are the
815 http://linux-speakup.org/
819 press the keypad slash key once.  Speakup will say, "mark".  Next,
821 url. Press the keypad slash key once again to actually cut the text
834 function key.  These are not Speakup commands, just standard Linux
838 type the word lynx, followed by a space.  Now press and hold the speakup
839 key, while you type the keypad slash character.  The url will be pasted
840 onto the command line, just as though you had typed it in.  Press the
841 enter key to execute the command.
851 cut, mark it with the keypad slash key, then position the reading cursor
853 keypad slash key.
882 pressed the enter key.  In this case, we are echoing strings that we
913 http://linux-speakup.org/.  The reason you'll need the kernel source
916 /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup directory.  The
924 /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/speakupmap.map file
930 Suppose that you want to swap the key assignments for the Speakup
932 speakupmap.map lists the key mappings for these two commands as follows:
948 You are now ready to load your keymap with your swapped key assignments.
952 /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/genmap newmap.map
961 speakup pagedown should read you the first non-whitespace character on
979 and they could not be changed.  If you used a non-English synthesizer,
1034 This file contains names for key states.
1038 The speakup key is depressed, so the name of the key state is speakup.
1088 tar xvjf speakup-<version>.tar.bz2
1094 use. Type the number associated to your language (e.g. fr for French) then press
1103 change the speakup's language or charset (iso-8859-15 ou UTF-8).
1121 14.3.  No Support for Non-Western-European Languages
1131 the screen.  The key strokes for defining and manipulating Speakup
1134 speakup + f2 -- Set the bounds of the window.
1135 Speakup + f3 -- clear the current window definition.
1136 speakup + f4 -- Toggle window silence on and off.
1137 speakup + keypad plus -- Say the currently defined window.
1148 cursor to the beginning of the area you want to define.  Then press
1151 end of the area to be defined as a window, and press speakup + f2 again.
1156 one line window, you can just press speakup + f2 twice after placing the
1213 spd and espeakup.  spd is an abbreviation for speechd-up.
1216 To use speechd-up, type:
1220 talkwith espeakup --default-voice=fr
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