Software speech in Debian installer

[Zachary Kline-3]

Hi,
I was wondering about any possibility of putting software speech of some
kind into the Debian installer along with Speakup.  I realize it isn't a
trivial undertaking, but in my opinion it would really help people who
aren't fortunate enough to have hardware speech.
I don't know how this might be implemented, and I'm not a developer.  Just
an idea on the table.  I speak from personal experience: I had to install
Debian via GRML's debootstrap wrapper: not a fun experience.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Zack.


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[Samuel Thibault]

(Cc-ing debian-boot as well)

Zachary Kline, le Tue 15 Jul 2008 10:21:27 -0700, a écrit :
> I was wondering about any possibility of putting software speech of some
> kind into the Debian installer along with Speakup.  I realize it isn't a
> trivial undertaking,

Just to copy-paste what I've said on the speakup mailing list:

« The trade-offs are about e.g disk usage and also which speech
synthesis we should enable, how to choose the language, etc.  Not a
trivial question like juste modprobing speakup_driver and voilà ;) »

And now that I'm thinking about it again, it's not only the soft synth,
but also sound drivers that would need to go into the debian installer
images...

Samuel


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[Luke Yelavich-3]

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:15:15PM BST, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> And now that I'm thinking about it again, it's not only the soft synth,
> but also sound drivers that would need to go into the debian installer
> images...


Not only that, but the alsa utilities/infrastructure needed to detect/set sound volume, etc, all of which requires at a minimum, creating new udebs.

Luke
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