creating a speakup cli cd

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Why would you need jack for espeakup?  AT least on grml I never saw that
message.

Don Raikes <DON.RAIKES at ORACLE.COM> 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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