I'm not sure what you are referring to with "install Debian with speech". The live USB boots, I hit S <Enter>, and the text installer starts.
Alan On 3/14/20, john doe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/14/2020 4:56 PM, Alan Tu wrote: >> Thanks Alex. Under Debian-testing, build uploaded 2020/03/09: >> Mate speaks correctly. My first Linux desktop. I suspect Debian 10.3 >> would be fine. >> Gnome. Same failure result, speaks a few words then nothing. Enter, >> Alt+Tab, Super+Tab, Alt+F2 orca --replace, nothing. >> >> I guess Debian's defaults are the defaults for a reason. Here I >> thought Gnome (Gnome 3) would have fewer bugs than Mate, a fork of >> Gnome 2. >> >> I can imagine an incompatibility, but orca under Gnome does speak a >> few words. I'd be willing to try some log collecting to perhaps >> diagnose Gnome 3. The Ubuntu 19.10 live CD has never spoken, >> considering their speech shortcut is Super+Alt+S, they are probably >> using a similar subsystem that just doesn't like my sound. >> >> On-board sound card: ROG SupremeFX 2015 8-Channel High Definition Audio >> CODEC >> Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII GENE; Chipset: Intel Z170 >> > > Is it safe to assume that "Install Debian with speatch" works? > > -- > John Doe > >

