Can One Add Speakup Consoles to a Standard Deb Installation?

[Albert Sten-Clanton]

I suspect my sound problems are similar to yours.  I don't know if they're
related to Pulseaudio or not, since, among other things, I couldn't get
software speech for GRML to work a version or two ago.

In this connection, I also do not get sound when I run recent Vinux live
CD's.  There are instructions in the Vinux quickstart guide that bring it
up, though.  I use ctrl-alt-t to go into the terminal, type volume_keys and
press enter, wait a bit, then press alt-y and press enter.  If memory serves
from two weeks ago, you then can use alt-windows key-right-arrow to raise
the volume and alt-windows key-left-arrow to lower it.  Orca and Speakup are
at the same volume.

I hope this is useful.

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Martin McCormick
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:46 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Can One Add Speakup Consoles to a Standard Deb Installation?

Frost writes:
>         They ever get speakUp working with pulse audio in unstable yet?
> I know when I tried unstable, it was only two upgrades before all 
> speech output became FUBAR, and I had to to a scratch install of 
> Squeeze to get any speech back.  Anyway, I'm gonna ditch Debian and 
> give Ubuntu a try, at least on the laptop.  Is anyone out there 
> successfully using the latest Ubuntu release out there on the command
line?

	I am sorry, but I am not going to be able to answer your question
directly but here is what happened.

	I got ownership of a Dell system whose BIOS version date was May of
2004. It was originally optimized for gaming and is a very nice system with
8 USB ports and what should be a good sound system.

	I could get the old Vinux2 disk to come up with no problem at all
and The Ubuntu live CD for version 9.10 let me start orca which did talk but
would spontaneously freeze up.

	Ubuntu 10.10 has never made a sound. If a sighted person was using
that live CD, they would not get any sound either as the problem is with
pulseaudio, most likely, and the screen reader's not working is just one
symptom of the overall problem of no sound.

	When Ubuntu 11.04 came out, I tried that ISO image and it also is
dead silent.

	The latest version of Vinux is built around Ubuntu 11.10 and it does
also not produce any sound.

	You can probably save yourself some wasted time by trying the latest
version of Vinux first as it is built to come up talking so you can save
yourself some steps.

	If it works, then try the Ubuntu Live cd and select the screen
reader and then Orca. None of it will talk until Orca comes up so you will
have a few commands to type in the blind before you find out whether it is
going to work.

	If you get it working and install Ubuntu, the login is silent but
you will get speech after a successful login.

	There are obviously a number of systems that do work just fine, so
your mileage will definitely vary.

Martin McCormick
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