Need help getting debian installation media speaking

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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The standard Debian Sarge CD image unfortunately doesn't include Speakup.  I used
the image found at:

http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/sarge-i386-speakup-20050129.iso

to get a talking install.  Unfortunately, this image doesn't include software
speech support out of the box, as I found out when trying to get a talking
install on my laptop which doesn't have a serial port for a hardware synth.  If
you do happen to have a hardware synth and a place to plug it into your PC, you
can build the speechd-up program from source once Debian is installed to
ultimately use software speech.  The nice thing about Debian is that speechd-up
is one of very few programs you will ever need to build from source, unless you
just like to compile source code. <grin>  I currently only have 3 binaries in
/usr/local/bin.

And mp3 support is built into Debian, unlike Fedora, which
makes you jump through hoops to get it.

I hope this helps you at least a little, and please don't give up on Debian.  It
rocks!

Lorenzo
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