OK, I got sighted assistance to check why the Debian development
installer isn't talking on my machine. It try to start speech, but
simply doesn't detect my sound card. Switching to a shell and issuing
amixer commands doesn't help. For the record, I've tried even a current
weekly build without success.
Interestingly, the installer for Bookworm detects the card, but then it
has that problem I've already mentioned, where speech stops in the
middle of installation. Do you want me to burn another talking distro to
try grabbing some information on my soundcard?
Cheers,
Cleverson