Talking bootloader

[tim]

In opensuse 11.0 there was a talking boot menu, I have no idea how it 
was done I believe using g something I don't remember the name right off 
hand. but you pressed f11 and it using espeak, as it's speech said 
Welcome to Opensuse 11.0.  if you arrowed around, it announced hard 
drive, cd drive etc, and like normal, you press enter on the one you 
wanted.  There's little if any docks about it from what I've been able 
to tell, but I ran it several years ago a live cd/dvd and it spoke! you 
might google opensuse talking boot menu or something, if I find anything 
I'll post back here, its the only distro I know of to have such a 
feature that doesn't rely on a separate hardware synth, someone correct 
me if wrong.



On 08/06/2016 06:56 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Yes, grub can do this. I can send my /etc/default/grub if you need it. 
> Basically you tell it to send the output to a serial console. I've 
> verified that it works here with my DECtalk Express. I'm talking about 
> grub2, not grub-legacy. Also, lilo can do this.
>
> On 8/6/2016 4:39 AM, -dan d. wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there such a thing as a talking bootloader?
>>
>> I know grub can be made to make sounds but I need speech.
>>
>> Can a bootloader be made to send a text string to a serial port with a
>> speech synth attached for it to be spoken?   I have a doubletalk.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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