What I do in a situation like this is to make sure sound is working. I usually do that by doing a find for wav files and piping themn to the aplay command: find / -name '*.wav' | xargs aplay PS: You should have changed the subject line. Now I think it's too late. On 2/7/2013 5:05 PM, Don Raikes wrote: > No Iam getting no speech. > > Even if I reboot the system, and run the following commands: > > $ modprobe Speakup_soft > $ invoke-rc.d espeakup start > > I still get the error about jack's not running, but if I press <enter> I am returnedto the command-line but no speech. > > System: dell inspiron xxxx laptop I don't remember the exact version. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Nowak [mailto:greg at gregn.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 3:51 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: creating a speakup cli cd > > It seems in most cases that espeakup/espeak still works even though it says the jack server couldn't be started. Are you saying you aren't getting speech when you modprobe speakup_soft, and start espeakup by hand? If so, then have you tried doing: > > invoke-rc.d espeakup start > > after modprobe speakup_soft, instead of starting espeakup directly by hand? > > Greg > > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:22:16AM -0800, Don Raikes wrote: >> Vinux is still in production at: >> >> http://www.vinux-project.org >> >> They are working on getting ubuntu precise to work better for the visually impaired. >> >> As for debian, I got squeeze installed and installed espeakup nad Speakup-tools, but can't get Speakup to start. >> >> After boot and login, I run: >> >> Modprobe Speakup_soft >> Espeakup >> >> But I keep being told that the jack server is not started. So far I haven't found any information about how to start it. >> >> Unfortunately, I am discovering that squeeze doesn't include a couple of the packages I need for my livecd like dc3dd and the latest ewf-tools. >> > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
