creating a speakup cli cd

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Thu Feb 7 18:22:57 EST 2013


What I do in a situation like this is to make sure sound is working. I 
usually do that by doing a find for wav files and piping themn to the 
aplay command:

find / -name '*.wav' | xargs aplay


PS: You should have changed the subject line. Now I think it's too late.


On 2/7/2013 5:05 PM, Don Raikes wrote:
> No Iam getting no speech.
>
> Even if I reboot the system, and run the following commands:
>
> $ modprobe Speakup_soft
> $ invoke-rc.d espeakup start
>
> I still get the error about jack's not running, but if I press <enter> I am returnedto the command-line but no speech.
>
> System: dell inspiron xxxx laptop I don't remember the exact version.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Nowak [mailto:greg at gregn.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 3:51 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: creating a speakup cli cd
>
> It seems in most cases that espeakup/espeak still works even though it says the jack server couldn't be started. Are you saying you aren't getting speech when you modprobe speakup_soft, and start espeakup by hand? If so, then have you tried doing:
>
> invoke-rc.d espeakup start
>
> after modprobe speakup_soft, instead of starting espeakup directly by hand?
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:22:16AM -0800, Don Raikes wrote:
>> Vinux is still in production at:
>>
>> http://www.vinux-project.org
>>
>> They are working on getting ubuntu precise to work better for the visually impaired.
>>
>> As for debian,  I got squeeze installed and installed espeakup nad Speakup-tools, but can't get Speakup to start.
>>
>> After boot and login, I run:
>>
>> Modprobe Speakup_soft
>> Espeakup
>>
>> But I keep being told that the jack server is not started.  So far I haven't found any information about how to start it.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I am discovering that squeeze doesn't include a couple of the packages I need for my livecd like dc3dd and the latest ewf-tools.
>>
>
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