Running speakup on Ubuntu?

[Tony Baechler]

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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