Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:22:07AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: >> Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Is there a version of Debian Installer which will use a screen >> > reader to give access to the installation program? >> If you are saying "screen reader", what do you mean exactly? There >> is a "version" of the Debian Installer (currently under development) >> which supports BRLTTY (a screen reader for braille displays). >> I guess you are refering to a screen reader to drive some speech synthesizer? >> >> If so, currently there is no effort undeerway in this direction. I >> originally >> planned to create a speakup-enabled flavour of the installer, but since >> feedback >> from the speakup users was very low, I set aside this plan for sometime >> later. >> >> What would the hardware be you are trying to use this "screen reader" on? >> A hardware speech synthesizer, or are you aiming at software speech >> synthesis + a sound card? > > Yes, I was hoping for speakup. I have hardware synths, so speakup would > be my first choice. If that isn't possible, a software synth would also > work. Unfortunately, I don't have a braille display, so I will need > speech output. I tried to make boot floppies for Woody with speakup but > never could get it to work. I've read the debian-boot list but I'm not > sure I understand what's going on. Is the process of creating a version > of Debian installer with the speakup kernel package difficult?
>From what I gather, it should not be too difficult. The major step (packaging the speakup patch, and a precompiled speakup kernel) I've already done. The only task left is creating a kernel-image and kernel-module udebs. This should be quite straightforward. But since I do not have any speakup-capable hardware, I am kind of stuck here. I could just blindly create a speakup-enabled floppy, but without being able to test it, I fear there will be quite some showstoppers... If anyone could donate a speakup-capable hardware synthesizer for testing, I could try and get this working. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44
