[arch-general] ArchLinux install CD for the blind, version 2!

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Mar 16 18:44:48 EDT 2009


Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 15. März 2009 14:54:20 schrieb Chris Brannon:
>   
>> I am proud to announce the second release of a modified ArchLinux install
>> CD that includes spoken output for blind users.
>> It is mostly equivalent to the official "ftp CD", but
>> the system should start speaking as soon as you boot with it.
>> Speech is provided via the sound card, using the eSpeak software
>> synthesizer and the Speakup screenreader.
>>     
>
> This sounds realy nice. Is there some way to make it kind of optional so it 
> might be included in a future archiso image? Or does it take a lot of disk/CD 
> space?
>   

By the looks of the packages required, this should only bump the install 
inages sizes by about 2Mb.

Allan






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