Please type modprobe speakup_soft and then type espeakup and let us know
what happens after that gets done.
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote:
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:09:19
From: Steve Matzura <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Getting speakup to run on debian
Right. I tried installing the espeakup package and apt-get couldn't
find it. I suspect I have a source problem in /etc/apt/sources.list. I
suspect I should have been able to get it from the DVD distro, but
darned if I know how to do that! I also made what apparently turned
out to be an invalid assumption that, if the install talked, the
system should, or could be made to easily.
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:32:59 -0500, you wrote:
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.
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