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speech support for systemd-boot? #11702

Open mhussaincov opened 5 years ago

mhussaincov commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...] i'm visually impared would it be possable to have speech on the systemd boot menu? so when arrowing up and down boot enteries I would get audio feedback from espeak telling me what boot entery i'm on? it would help alot thanks for considdering my feature request. Majid Hussain Describe the solution you'd like A clear and concise description of what you want to happen.

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poettering commented 5 years ago

Uh, speech support in a boot loader, that would be a new concept, no?

I figure it should be possible to implement an EFI driver that provides a serial driver and synthesizes everything written to it. This could then be loaded into the sd-boot EFI environment and you should get what you want without modifying sd-boot itself. That said, iirc UEFI doesn't do audio drivers, hence not sure how realistic all that is...

Hence, I sympathize, but I am pretty sure this should be a separate project, i.e. a separate EFI driver.

And we should modify sd-boot to automatically load EFI binaries from a specific dir on disk, so that such a text-to-speech driver could be auto-loaded when it exists.

CameronNemo commented 5 years ago

Existing speech synthesizers, last updated 2018-03-31.

hellcp commented 5 years ago

Uh, speech support in a boot loader, that would be a new concept, no?

Not exactly, gfxboot has support and implements reading available options via, wait for it, PC speaker: https://github.com/openSUSE/gfxboot