Have you tried running the script in sudo mode e.g. if the script is called myscript "sudo myscript", some of the stuff mentioned to start speakup needs root permissions. Note: after issuing the command using sudo, you may be prompted for your password before the script is run. From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Ford" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:40 PM Subject: RE: speakup and ubuntu > Chris, > I just wanted to let you know I did get speakup going on my ubuntu > Toshiba notebook. I have to learn about permissions and groups, so that I > can get that script to work properly though. I created it and set it to > be > executable. However it has failures and no permission to run stuff. I > will > figure it out though. I just wanted to thank you for your help. Later > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Chris Norman > Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 6:15 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: speakup and ubuntu > > What I did was: > Go into a console as root. Make sure your box is updated. Go into > /etc/apt/sources.list (I think), and remove all the hash (#) symbols from > the lines otherwise starting with "deb" or "source" or whatever they are, > with addresses starting with http after them, then do: > > apt-get install speech-dispatcher > apt-get install speechd-up > > Now you can type: > modprobe speakup_sftsyn > speech-dispatcher > speechd-up > > My /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf set festival as the default synth > anyway. I always start with the GUI on ubuntu, so festival is always > started > to. Otherwise just do `festival --server` or whatever the command is and > then run the above. > > I have a start-speakup file which is named in my .bash_login file, the > script looks like this: > > #!/bin/bash > modprobe speakup_sftsyn > speech-dispatcher > speechd-up > echo -e "\7" > > THis script is prety self-explanitory, except for the echo which makes the > system speaker beep once. > > This script has never failed. > > HTH, > > Chris Norman > <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk -->
