Getting speakup to run on debian

[Jude DaShiell]

Please type modprobe speakup_soft and then type espeakup and let us know 
what happens after that gets done.

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote:

> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:09:19
> From: Steve Matzura <sm at noisynotes.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: Re: Getting speakup to run on debian
> 
> Right. I tried installing the espeakup package and apt-get couldn't
> find it. I suspect I have a source problem in /etc/apt/sources.list. I
> suspect I should have been able to get it from the DVD distro, but
> darned if I know how to do that! I also made what apparently turned
> out to be an invalid assumption that, if the install talked, the
> system should, or could be made to easily.
>
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:32:59 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Speakup mailing list
>>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
>>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup

--