Try fenrir start, and your system may reboot and may come up talking. On Wed, 30 Sep 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:56:35 > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Console screenreaders > > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to install and run those console screen-readers on Ubuntu > Mate 20, but failiing. I am even trying to have speech at bootup, but I > can't find any setting to do that. Can anyone direct me where to get > more info about using Fenrir or Speakup? > > With Fenrir, try as I might since yesterday, running it does not produce > speech. Instead, I get this error, > > I tried looking for any defaults on the Internet, but seems I am hitting > against a wall. > > The same applies with Yasr: It says connection was refused and I do not > get any speech. > > With speakup, soon after installing it with sudo apt-get install > espeakup speakup-tools, I get the following error: > Errors were encountered while processing: > espeakup > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > TIa, > > On Wednesday, 30 September 2020, at 19:23, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Some anonymous miscreant wrote: > >> > >> espeak preferable to fenrir but that's only because fenrir reads ansi line > >> drawing characters when speaking. espeak suppresses those characters. > > > > You might want to file a bug report, asking for this to be turned from a > > feature into an option. > > > > -r > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > -- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list