Re: An accessible bootloader

[Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>]

Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> writes:
> Mario Lang, le Sun 08 Jul 2012 21:54:58 +0200, a écrit :
>> Francisco Rafael Del Roio <francipvb@hotmail.com> writes:
>> > Another solution, possibly, are to make some modules for the grub,
>> > providing sound output and screen reading capability, using the espeak
>> > code.
>> 
>> I know that there is ongoing workto port BRLTTY to GRUB.  I don't know
>> about any effort involving software speech synthesis though.
>
> I had talked with phcoder, and before integrating a complete speech
> synthesizer, we could simply integrating wav playing, and pre-synthesize
> all known messages (and spell the rest).

Oh, just like Rockbox does it.  I like the idea, sounds feasable.

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