Loading speakup

[donna.aitkens]

Hello.

This may seem a little basic.  I'm running a virtual machine with a Debian based distro of Linux with the Orca screenreader for the desktop environment but some of the aplications for my course at University require access to the text console/CLI.  I am wondering how I would go about loading speakup once I have switched to the Text console.  I have checked and the packages are installed, includig the espeak synth which is the one I would like to use with speakup when loaded.  I did a little experimentation buy editing a file and adding the command to load speakup from the boot prompt but it just continiously kept reading the system log and I could not interupt the speech, is there a way to avoid this and only load speakup when its needed?  
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