Running speakup on Ubuntu?

[Gregory Nowak]

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


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 04:23:11AM -0700, 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.
> 


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