Re: Speech mode of Debian installer
Roland Clobus, le sam. 23 nov. 2024 15:34:49 +0100, a ecrit:
> On 19/11/2024 14:17, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Cc-ing debian-accessibility at least for information.
> > Roland Clobus, le mar. 19 nov. 2024 12:31:15 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > (I've noticed e.g. 'Chinese letter - Chinese letter' being spoken
> > > at 1:00) -> i.e. should the list of languages be reduced for this
> > > specific variant of the installer, because the speech module cannot
> > > read it?
> >
> > Ideally that could be implemented in localechooser, by looking at the
> > list of voices in espeak to filter the list.
>
> The next screen typically works fine, so there appears no need for removing
> some languages from this list.
>
> However, could localechooser use a pre-rendered pronunciation for the
> language-selection question (activated only when espeak is active)?
> E.g.:
> # Prerendering of the language file:
> echo "Ελληνικά" | espeak-ng -x -v el
> # Then the line would become "28: Greek - [[,elinik'a]]"
That'd be complex: espeakup just gets the whole text, it doesn't know
what piece is in which language.
> > > * The spoken text 'Prompt. For help' does not speak the most important bit,
> > > i.e. that the question mark will show the help text
> >
> > This is
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690343
> >
> > forwarded upstream
> >
> > https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/150
>
> With no upstream activity since 2016, should the text in the installer be
> changed?
That's a possibility, but the bug really wants to be fixed by somebody
at some point, because such prompts do happen here and there.
> Piper has a MIT license and the voices appear to be less restrictive, but I
> didn't look at it too deeply.
>
> Regarding size: perhaps the netinst image cannot handle the growth, but e.g.
> a GNOME live image (already at 4GB) can have a bit more.
But it's not just "a bit". Look at the size per language of piper. We
cannot just add a GB of voices for the various languages that d-i
supports.
> Or there could even be an a11y live image (or are there already Debian
> derivatives that handle this?)
Some derivatives do this, yes.
Samuel
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