Running speakup on Ubuntu?

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
service espeakup restart
worked like a charm! Now I am wondering if anyone knows how to get 
speakup to read the key echo characters?
thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
On 7/31/2015 1:23 PM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> I would need a lot more information before I can help you:
>
> 1. Are you running this in a VM?  I just read about someone else 
> running the daily build of the Debian Installer under VMWare who had 
> the same issue. The system installed fine but no speech came up when 
> booting.  It could very likely have to do with the audio emulation.  
> If possible, try with KVM or VirtualBox.  Even better, try on real 
> hardware.
>
> 2. Are you saying that Speakup doesn't work in the live CD or after 
> the installation?  I wouldn't be surprised if the live CD doesn't 
> support it, but the installed system should work.  I think I did get 
> it to work on a live CD once a long time ago.  The Super-S etc is for 
> starting Orca, not Speakup.  You ran the right commands to install 
> it.  The only other thing I would try is this:
>
> service espeakup restart
>
> 3. What error are you getting?  If it's already running and you have 
> no sound, see #1 above.  Are you using a GUI?  You didn't say what 
> version of Ubuntu you're using.  There could be a conflict between 
> Pulse and ESpeak. Try disabling Pulse.  I'm not sure how to do that 
> because I don't run it here.  I would also temporarily remove the 
> execute bit from the gdm startup script to make sure X doesn't start, 
> just in case Orca is a problem.
>
> chmod -x /etc/init.d/gdm*
> reboot
>
> Without more information, I can't help further.
>
> On 7/30/2015 9:56 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
>> Hello,
>> How does one get speakup working on Ubuntu?
>> I tried logging in, pressing s, pressing super+s, pressing super+alt+s,
>> typing speakup, typing espeakup, typing sudo apt-get install 
>> espeakup, then
>> typing espeakup, typing speakup, but nothing.
>> What am I missing?
>> thanks,
>>
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