speakup under Ubuntu 6.10

[Chris Norman]

It is most likely your friend's sound card to be honest.

WHen I installed ubuntu, alls I did was:

>From orca, using gnome-terminal and `su -l`, I updated the system, then 
installed speech-dispatcher, speechd-up and espeak with:
apt-get install speech-dispatcher
apt-get install speechd-up
apt-get install espeak

I got speech-dispatcher running with espeak (note, you have to change speak 
to espeak in espeak-generic.conf), then I (using a script) did:

modprobe speakup_sftsyn
speech-dispatcher -d
speechd-up -d
and everything worked fine. If your friend has orca working with ubuntu, 
then there (shouldn't) be any reason why speakup doesn't work.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Levi Campbell" <levicc00123 at gmail.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:06 PM
Subject: speakup under Ubuntu 6.10


> I've got a friend who is trying to install speakup under Ubuntu 6.10 using 
> a
> 2.6.17 kernel, but when he tries to start it, it gives an error that it
> cannot access the sound card. he's using speechd-up version 0.3-0ubuntu1,
> speech-dispatcher version 0.6.1-2ubuntu1 and festival version
> 1.4.3-17.1ubuntu5. What could be going on and how can it be fixed?
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