The manual describes in detail what to do, I tried with hardware speech and it worked perfectly. I think its section 5 of the Debian manual. On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:27:19 -0400, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > Hi, > Someone recommended a Debian image with the speech installer from: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/ > and I never got it to speak, I tried S and alt S and it never came up, the > next page came up to language selection, but I couldn't make a selection > reading the screen with the iPhone. > I previously tried a Raspbian for i386 installer, and it came up to the > window that the TTS says to press control alt space to install Orca, but > neither the laptop keyboard nor the attached USB keyboard worked, so if it > can't use that bit of hardware, that image won't work, but at least I know > that the audio can work in a recent OS, but I'm not sure if I actually > selected speech install on the Debian. > I thought it said press F11 for something on the first screen, and I'm > wondering if anyone knows if S does work, or you know to arrow up or down a > certain number of times to get speech on this Debian installer. > > Thanks. > > Glenn > > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx