Is speakup no longer included in grml releases?

Justin Harford blindstein at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 01:08:50 EST 2012 

Hi there 

Well I tried 

grml2hd 

and it said that the command was not recognized. 

It looks like the install process has changed over the last few years though. My process did not look anything like what Michael Whapples did in 2008. 

It looks like I have a system set up now, but I cannot seem to figure out how to turn on speakup. I tried what worked in the live cd:

modprobe speakup_soft 
espeakup 

But no beans. 

It does not recognize the command espeakup. 

Regards
Justin Harford 
On 20-01-2012, at 21:20, Robert cole wrote:

> Hello, Justin.
> 
> Yes, the script is called grml2hd. I haven't tried it as I do not have a hard drive to install to. I may try it under VirtualBox.
> 
> On 01/20/2012 07:55 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
>> 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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