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Re: Software speech synthesis in d-i



Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org):
> Hello,
> 
> Software speech synthesis is almost there in d-i. I'm just waiting for
> portaudio19 to fix a small bug, and then with rootskel and
> linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 uploads I'll be able to upload espeakup-udeb
> and make use of it in d-i.
> 
> Now the question is: how to let the user select it?
> 
> I've attached an example of what I plan to commit:

That's an example, right? Only activating in amd64 GTK netboot is just
because this is an example, I guess.

> 
> - Add sound modules and espeakup-udeb in addition to speakup modules.
> - Add a menu entry which triggers that software speech synthesis
>   support.
> - Make the menu entry the last one so you can press End then Enter to
>   start it.
> - Make an 's' shortcut on it so you can press 's' then Enter to start it.


The 's' shortcut is fine, imho.

We could maybe improve the wording to make it clearer than "Speech
install". Maybe "Install with ^speech synthesis"?

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