Debian: speech goes silent in VMware

[Øyvind Lode]

Sorry, don't know about orca.
I don't install X and a desktop environment.
I exclusively use only the text mode console and I only use Linux for
server and router/firewall purposes and thus no need for a GUI.

However, when installing on physical hardware speakup with software
speech works during the whole install process and I also get speech
when booting into the installed system but not so lucky on virtualized
hardware.

On 15 August 2017 at 17:09, Paul Loba <pltechmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 8/15/17, Øyvind Lode <oyvind.lode at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I've been trying to install debian 9.x in a VM (vmware) on Windows.
>> I use this approach for testing purposes and I also wanted to have a
>> couple of vms running debian stretch.
>> I have used the same iso files (written to usb flash disk) and used
>> the flash to boot up and install stretch on physical hardware without
>> a hitch.
>
> Should I understand that you got ORCA talking after installing Stretch
> on your physical hardware?
>
>>
>> However, on vmware speech suddenly goes silent.
>> It happens during install.
>> Last time I tried it stopped when I was about to select keyboard layout.
>> I've tried it on vmware on 3 different machines (host OS) both windows
>> 7 and windows 10 with the same result.
>> I've also tried using usb headset and I always get speech after
>> pressing 's' at the boot menu but speech stops after a while during
>> setup regardless of host machine and/or soundcard.
>>
>> I wanted to try VirtualBox 5.2 when I read that the 5.2 beta includes
>> accessibility improvements but the UI was not yet usable.
>> I could setup the vm but booting up the vm and select boot media UI
>> was inaccessible.
>>
>> I don't know of other virtualization software on windows that is
>> accessible for me to try.
>>
>> Is this a vmware issue or the debian installer with speech.
>> I'm pretty sure it would work just fine without speech and
>> accessibility activated.
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> Thanks,
> Pawel
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