There were 2 sources for speechd-up debian packages, ubuntu and myself. I created a speechd-up debian package that mostly worked. But it never became an official debian package and I don't think speechd-up is even being developed any more. You can try my packages but even I don't use them any more. I always use espeakup which does not require speech-dispatcher or speechd-up. If you ttry my packages, you will probably have to modify the /etc/init.d/speechd-up script. I think changes in debian from etch to lenny broke that script. If you want to try my debian package you can point a browser here: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-i386/speechd-up_0.5_i386.deb Or for amd64: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/binary-amd64/speechd-up_0.5_amd64.deb jheim at erdos:~/public/html$ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Turkington" <garrys.lists@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:59 PM Subject: Re: Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS > Hi Kelly/Tyler, > > Thanks for your responses. > > I do know that espeakup obviates the need for speech-dispatcher and > speechd-up but since I want to try some commercial voices I'll have to > use those as well. > > As Kelly suggested getting a vanilla Debian 5 install speech enabled > using the aforementioned Speakup/Espeak/Espeakup was almost > embarrassingly easy. I've also found that the responsiveness I'm > getting in the install within a VM is vastly improved on anything I > ever saw before in a virtualized environment. I know VMware > explicitly did work on Linux sound in Workstation 7 but I'm sure > congrats are owed to the Speakup folk too. Nice one! > > Now that I've got a snapshot of this setup I'm now going to play with > speech-dispatcher and speechd-up. I see that there's a pre-rolled > speech-dispatcher package in the Debian repo but not speechd-up. I > seem to recall mention of it though, is it in an additional repository > somewhere? I've not used Debian in anger for... err... 12 years ack > so am somewhat out of touch on the repositories. > > Cheers, > Garry > > On 11/26/09, Kelly Prescott <prescott at deltav.org> wrote: >> Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile >> a kernel to work. >> then I exclude kernel* from updates. >> I have also used gentoo and debian as well. >> debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing. >> still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5. >> Just my $0.02 >> >> =-- Kelly Prescott >> >> >> On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington <garrys.lists at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's >>> not hit my inbox or the archives. >>> >>> I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using >>> CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained >>> reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. >>> >>> In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment >>> die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among >>> other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some >>> rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which >>> will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. >>> Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of >>> the server variants out there. >>> >>> With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably >>> trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use >>> software speech -- and especially with my preference for some >>> commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up >>> working. >>> >>> This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have >>> any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the >>> dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it >>> looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. >>> Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear >>> of a time getting that to work. >>> >>> So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other >>> recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing >>> on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at >>> least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on >>> dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server >>> hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Garry >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
