Running speakup on Ubuntu?

[Tony Baechler]

Does the espeakup package not do that automatically?  I've never had to do 
that with espeakup installed that I can recall, but of course you're right. 
  I'm used to Debian which does that automatically during the install.

On 7/31/2015 12:46 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Looking at the below reply and at the original post, I just realized
> there is no mention of
> modprobe speakup_soft
> anywhere. You'll need to do that as superuser, and that could well be
> the missing step. HTH.
>
> Greg
>