On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 12:19:13PM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
> Thanks for testing. I was encouraged by your report to try to get speech
> working here on my laptop that lists HDMI as card 0, and I managed to do it
> by creating /etc/asound.conf to set card 1 as the default. Is that how
> others deal with it?

I can only speak to how I deal with it, though using asound.conf isn't
a method I tried using. I just edit the last line of
/etc/default/espeakup before I start espeakup. I haven't needed sound
for anything else in the minimal ISO so far, so that's as far as I got
with setting cards there.

> Would it be helpful to include a script to do that for
> the user?

Oh Yes, yes, yes! When the minimal live was first created, this was
the top most requested feature. The debian/devuan installer already
asks the user to
"please press enter to activate this sound card", and I
passed on the script responsible for it to katolaZ, but I don't
believe anything else was done with that.

>
> Also, I was wondering if you have any thoughts about the speech-synthesis
> install that gives you the mate desktop with a screen reader. Do you have
> any experience with that? I made a live iso of such an install and I'm
> wondering if that would be useful. If you wanted to try it, I'll upload it
> and post the link in a separate email with a more appropriate subject line.
> (it's daedalus, not excalibur, and it's not minimal)

The mate desktop is what I use here on all my GUI machines, and it is
the default offered when installing devuan with speech. So, I have
experience as far as
using it. I'm not sure if that's the experience you have in mind, or
something else. I'd be willing to try the mate ISO you created, and
give you my feedback on it.

Greg


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