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Re: Speech going out during installation

On a installation for a physical system you can type control+alt+f1 and switch to the console, but I can't tell you how to do that with a virtual system that is in the middle of an install. 
One trick you might be able to use is to install 'tesseract'.
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
 Then while the virtual system is active, press the printScreen key.  If ORCA is active it will read the window at least when using 'quickemu'.  Now it should let you save a graphical image of the screen. Now go back to the main system to the directory where the file is located.  It should be screenshot.jpg or screenshot.png. 
tesseract screenshot-XYZ.png stdout |less
Maybe it won't work with your setup, test the screenshot part first.




On 11/18/25 2:32 PM, K0LNY ?? wrote:

I wonder if there is a podcast/recording of someone going through the steps
of a Debian installation?
If so, I could follow that to know which screen I am on.
I've made the choices enough that I know what I want from each screen, but I
don't know which screen I'm on.
This PC does not have a monitor, otherwise I'd use my iPhone to see which
screen is up.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "K0LNY ??" <glenn@ervin.email>
To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>; "john doe"
<johndoe65534@mail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Speech going out during installation


You would think 4GB is enough.
It could be that the host HD is low though, but I was able to use 20 GB for
the drive size before, and I removed that VM, and I only gave this one 7 GB
to start with.
That comes out of the host machine's HD storage.
I hate this looking for stuff that I can delete to create more HD space.
However, I still would like to know if there is a way to get speech back
when it quits.
Seems to me that in earlier times using the installer, there was a way to
drop out to a base system for a few tasks during the install.
If so, perhaps I can call up the screenreader again there.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "john doe" <johndoe65534@mail.com>
To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Speech going out during installation


On 11/18/25 7:46 PM, K0LNY ?? wrote:

Hello Group,
So, sometimes, using VmWare, during the installation of Debian, using the
talking installer, the voice goes out.
Is there some sort of escape sequence/way to step away to recall the TTS?
Otherwise, I have to close the VM setup and start over and hope it does
not happen again.
Usually it may stop talking after I have configured the disk to write to.
Sometimes I get through it without losing speech, but it would be nice to
not have to keep starting over.


This looks like the guest has not enough resources.
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