Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

[Justin Harford]

I actually downloaded this to take a look. I waited for the jingle and typed 

modprobe speakup_soft 
followed by 
espeakup 

and after I pressed enter it did eventually come up speaking, but it had an error saying that it could not access a certain source, but I just pressed return and it started working, review keys etc. 

Now I'm just looking for how to install it on the hard drive partition. In the FAQ of GRML, it looks as though it is not obvious.

Regards
Justin Harford 
On 20-01-2012, at 16:14, Glenn wrote:

> Hi Kerry,
> I tried these, as they sound like the same as Orca, but nothing came out 
> when navigating with those keys.
> It must be that I did all on the same line to call up espeak.
> Glenn
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?
> 
> 
> 
> obviously modprobe speakup_soft
> and
> espeakup
> are 2 separate commands you run after hitting q to exit the grml
> quickstart wizard.
> 
> Once speech is loaded you can use the speakup review commands to get
> around the screen. to get keyboard echo you echo 1
>> /sys/accessibility/speakup/key_echo or similar it is in there somewhere.
> 
> to move by lines use capslock u i o, words are j k l and characters m ,
> and .
> 
> capslock and the numbers do volume, pitch and speed.
> There is a help key can't remember what it is but there is documentation
> on linux-speakup.org somewhere with all the key bindings.
> 
> Regards, Kerry.
> 
> On 20/01/2012 12:41 PM, Glenn wrote:
>> Kerry,
>> I downloaded the 32 bit version of GRML, and used the USB installer and 
>> put
>> it onto my 4GB thumbdrive.
>> I ran:
>> modprobe speakup_soft espeakup
>> And I got speech, but it does not echo my typing, nor can I find a way of
>> reviewing what is on the screen.
>> I am familiar with Orca, in Ubuntu, but this has me stumped.
>> This is on an Asus ePc which runs XP okay, I don't remember if I upgraded
>> the RAM to 1GB or 2GB, but either way, it should be enough.
>> How do I control the speech better?
>> Thanks
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kerry Hoath"<kerry at gotss.net>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Speakup is included however the accessability boot options are gone.
>> Boot the cd, wait for the beeps from the speaker, hit q to exit the
>> quick config screen then key in
>> modprobe speakup_soft
>> espeakup
>> 
>> You should get speech.
>> Options to load into ram still exist on the cheatsheet as far as I can
>> tell and you can still do
>> <tab>  ssh=password
>> to get an ssh server running on the box.
>> 
>> Regards, kerry.
>> 
>> On 12/01/2012 10:11 AM, Marcel Oats wrote:
>>> Hi, I am fairly sure this has been answered before, so excuse me.  I
>>> just downloaded grml2011.12 (both 64 and 32bit versions) and noticed
>>> that their "large" distribution (around 700mb of iso) is no longer
>>> available. They do not mention speakup support in their list of boot
>>> options.
>>> I am wanting to use this as you can load the squashfs into ram and have
>>> it run from there; I usually remaster it so as additional programmes
>>> that I have included are available, and we have software speech, instead
>>> of having to rely on a hardware synth.
>>> I might have to look for another distro, and hope that it is possible to
>>> load the squashfs filesystem into ram as well.
>>> 
>>> Useful to do such things as running Terabyte's Image for Linux and
>>> create BD backups is an example of the kinds of uses I have.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Marcel
>>> 
>>> 
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