I am very interested to know how all this works since I am going to try to speechify kalilinux which is based on Debian.
It has been a long time since I have tried to build my own live images for either Debian or kali and I want to rely on the expertise from this list for some help. -----Original Message----- From: Cleverson Casarin Uliana <clul+debacc...@posteo.com.br> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 4:27 PM To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org Subject: [External] : No speech in the alpha Installer, and speech freeze in Bookworm Hi, I've tried to start installing Debian from NetInst alpha 1 for Trixie, but there was no speech at all. Once I get the system installed, I'm willing to help you diagnose the problem. In the meantime, I downloaded NetInst for Bookworm 12.10, and there was speech this time. I started preparing to install, but when I finished network configuration, speech suddenly stopped. I changed to another shell and tried to restart it, but no commands worked. I tried things like kill -9 espeakup, systemctl stop espeakup, systemctl start espeakup, espeak-ng "test", but none talked. Then I rebooted, and before starting installation again, I changed to another shell to make some tests before speech crashed again. I discovered that, for some reason, the environment doesn't recognize systemd commands, espeak-ng is not visible as well, and other commands behave oddly, for example, kill -9 doesn't accept a name, only a number. I guess that the Debian environment before installation is much more restrickted than other shells I've used in the past, such as ArchLinux. I recall having this exact problem in the past on other distros, and it appears to be a speakup issue, since it occurred to me when using not only espeakup plus espeak, but also voxinup plus voxin. So, the problem probably exists for years. In any case, I'd like suggestions on commands I could issue in order to try restarting speech in case of a crash in the middle of the installation. Thanks, Cleverson
