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== Background == The Linux kernel includes the [http://www.linux-speakup.org/ Speakup screen reader]. Unlike most desktop screen readers, Speakup will aid in reading the Linux virtual TTYs that you can switch to with Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F6 on most systems. This functionality is vitally important for troubleshooting in a Linux system and running command line applications, which is unfortunately one of the more accessible experiences on Linux. Speakup alone is not enough to implement a screen reader: It still needs some speech synthesizer to turn text and control signals in to audio. Once upon a time hardware synthesizers connected over serial were used to do this task, but as computers became more capable software synthesizers became viable. Speakup supports software synthesizers by exposing a character device in /dev/softsynthu. A connector such as connects to this device and implements the synthesizer protocol and handles playback of speech. In practice the software synthesizer is [https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup espeakup] which plays speech using [https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng eSpeak NG].
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