speakup and ubuntu

[Michael Whapples]

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 at adaptiveit.us>
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 -->