Speakup: Can Speakup distinguish terminals?

[Hynek Hanke]

Hello Kirk,

I have one more question. Can you somehow distinguish in
kernel what console are you reading the text from? If yes,
is there a possibility to somehow pass the information
to /dev/softsynth?

This would be very useful, because the user could configure
the interface daemon to use Speakup for some consoles while
mute it for some others (where might be running speechd-el
or some other specialized application with it's own speech
interface). In other words, it might be desirable to switch,
at run-time, for which consoles a user wants to use Speakup
and for which not. This could be easily done in the daemon
I'm writing right now, but only if I had some information
about the origin of the different messages that are written
to /dev/softsynth.

I know the user can mute Speakup with pressing one or two keys,
which is quite easy. But it might be annoying when frequently
switching between consoles. It'd be better to be able to do it
automatically.

Do you think it would be possible?

Regards,
Hynek