system with speakup software already installed?

[Kerry Hoath]

There is viubuntu; not sure if it has speakup or just gnome and orca.

I have tried to summarize what I did here as all this seems to be in pieces 
scattered across the speakup archives.
I might try updating the install documents for speakup as they are wofully 
out of date.

Corrections, shortcuts, better ways to integrate this with module-assistant 
or welcome.

You want a distribution with 2.6.26 or later kernel, and the headers 
installed the below assumes Ubuntu Intrepid.
I got this working yesterday it was not difficult in a nutshell I did the 
following:

This was an install to an eeepc 701 for anyone who cares.

Got someone to install ubuntu 8.10 for me and checked the ssh server option 
off the server cd.

finished up the install and rebooted off the flash disk in the eeepc.

sudo su once logged in via ssh (or ssh in as root if you like)
apt-get install build-essential kernel-headers-`uname -r`

apt-get install git git-core
apt-get install espeak libespeak-dev

now test your audio setup because alsa needs to work properly before you 
mess with software speech.
There's no point configuring speakup and espeakup and espeak if the 
underlying frameworks are broken.
I installed an mp3 player,
apt-get install mpg321
and played an mp3 to insure mixer was correctly set.
espeak "testing speech this should work"

If your box talks you're in good shape.

cd /usr/src
git-clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup.git

cd speakup/src
make modules
make modules_install

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/speakup
cp * ..
depmod -a

not sure if that is necessary or not as the modules did not seem to be seen 
without moving them up a level.

cd /usr/src/speakup/contrib
tar xjf espeakup-0.4.tar.bz2
cd espeakup-0.4
make
make install

modprobe speakup_soft

espeakupd

now hit enter on your console and you should have speech.


any ways to script this into initrd images, fire this up on boot etc; I will 
flesh this out into a mini-howto.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: system with speakup software already installed?


> Hello list,
> I'm looking for a system that already has speakup installed (I've never 
> had much luck with the software speech).
> I'm going to try to get it installed on my laptop though at some point 
> (really soon), and was wondering if there is a distro with speakup already 
> set up and installed for software speech.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
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