You need a speech synthesizer, and that is not part of speakup. You either need espeakup, or speechd-up and speech dispatcher, which has worked great for me, although I mostly use hardware speech. Steve Matzura <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just installed a fresh Jessie yesterday. The install was assisted by > Speakup, which I started at the install screen main menu by pressing > s<ENTER>. I was quite impressed with the way it all worked, with one > silly exception: There was a screen with 78 choices, one per line, and > I couldn't figure out how to scroll the screen backward to read the > first and second screens of choices, so I just went with the default > choice, which turned out to be the correct one for me for the question > being asked. Very impressive. No Orca, no forms, just straight CLI. I > love CLI. > > Now then, the system is up and running, there's no desktop, I boot > directly to the login prompt, and now I want to get Speakup working on > the console terminals. Someone named Samuel from Debian accessibility > told me I should install the espeakup package, but apt-get can't find > it. What'd I do wrong? And why would I even need to be doing this > since obviously Speakup is included in the install, you'd think, or at > least I did, that it would already exist on the system and be able to > be run. > > Thanks in advance for any and all assistance and advice. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
