To clarify, that's the gentoo minimal iso I think John uses to install. So far as I know the live iso hasn't got espeak built into its kernel.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 2 May 2023, John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 02 May 2023 14:06:34 -0400, > Matthew Dyer wrote: > > > > Good afternoon all, > > > > > > This question might be better sooted for the accessibility list, > > but seeing that I don't seem to be getting help there I thought I > > would bring it up here. First off, I am an orca user in the gui, > > but use espeakup in or fenrir in the concel. I find that booting > > the officael iso, there is no easy way to boot up with > > speech. For example, in debian, at the boot prompt, pressing S > > will bring up the installer with speech and you can follow the > > prompts in the text installer which uses espeakup. Could > > something simlar be done for gentoo? My work around has been to > > use another linux distro iso. I.E ubuntu to do the install > > following the wiki, but seening there is no way to get speech > > after, that is whare I fall short. The other problem is that if > > trying to install accessibility packages like orca, there seems > > to be alot of problems with conflicks with flags and > > dependencies. For example, when installikng orca, it complans > > that espeak and espeak-ng can not be installed at the same time. > > What is strange is that espeak is not even installed at this > > point. Installing espeak-ng installs without a problem. Perhaps > > this is a bug that perhaps is unreported. Perhaps an > > accessibility profile could be created for this. Thanks and hope > > that this is something that can be looked at. The wiki doesn't > > have much in the way of accessibility in particular installing. > > Thanks again. > > I have installed gentoo several times, using the gentoo iso, not the > live distribution. I get all the way through, update the system and > then worry about orca later, depending on what gui I want to install > -- I have installed orca from master and used gnome as my gui. The > regular gentoo iso has the speakup modules enabled in the kernel, so > this should not be too bad. What helps greatly is a hardware speech > synthesizer, for software speech you might have to install something > like espeakup, I have not done things that way, so experimentation > would be necessary. > > I hope this helps, let me know if you have any further questions. > >
