Getting speakup to run on debian

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

You need a speech synthesizer, and that is not part of speakup.  You
either need espeakup, or speechd-up and speech dispatcher, which has
worked great for me, although I mostly use hardware speech.

Steve Matzura <sm at noisynotes.com> wrote:

> I just installed a fresh Jessie yesterday. The install was assisted by
> Speakup, which I started at the install screen main menu by pressing
> s<ENTER>. I was quite impressed with the way it all worked, with one
> silly exception: There was a screen with 78 choices, one per line, and
> I couldn't figure out how to scroll the screen backward to read the
> first and second screens of choices, so I just went with the default
> choice, which turned out to be the correct one for me for the question
> being asked. Very impressive. No Orca, no forms, just straight CLI. I
> love CLI.
> 
> Now then, the system is up and running, there's no desktop, I boot
> directly to the login prompt, and now I want to get Speakup working on
> the console terminals. Someone named Samuel from Debian accessibility
> told me I should install the espeakup package, but apt-get can't find
> it. What'd I do wrong? And why would I even need to be doing this
> since obviously Speakup is included in the install, you'd think, or at
> least I did, that it would already exist on the system and be able to
> be run.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any and all assistance and advice.
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