Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

Justin Harford blindstein at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 22:55:09 EST 2012


gmrl or grml?

I was following the audio tutorial, and that option did not work for me. And in their FAQ, it did not sound like it was available. Maybe I didn't read it right.

I ended up running grml-debootstrap 

I hope it's not too much of a pain lol. Why would it be?

Justin 
On 20-01-2012, at 19:31, Kelly Prescott wrote:

> I always use gmrl2hd and it works good for me...
> I have a acer netbook ad another little one that I cannot think of the brand
> of.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:27 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?
> 
> They do have a gRML2hd, but I've never managed to get that working, so good
> luck. I always just used debootstrap and installed Debian, but that's kind
> of a pain.
> On 1/20/2012 7:14 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
>> 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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