Debian upgrade to Jessie

[Tom Fowle]

All,
Trying to test speakup with espeak on wheezie.
Installed espeakup package
made /dev/softsynth as per instructions in speakupguide

first there is no
/speakup/synth
closest I can find is
/sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth
when try, as root, to 
echo soft >/sys/modules/speakup/parameters/synth
get permission denied
when run espeakup get
cannot open softhsynth, no such device.
/dev/softhsynth exists.
Oh yes, espeak is on system, works with orca 

  Tom Fowle
  wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm


On Tue, May 19, 2015, at 10:03 AM, John G Heim wrote:
> There is a page on my space on the web site of the International 
> Association Of Visually Impaired Technologists that explains how to get 
> a doubletalk working with speakup. You do have to compile a kernel and 
> that may be something you don't want to try. It is really not that 
> difficult but you can make it so your machine doesn't boot if you do it 
> wrong. You're not likely to do that but it can happen.
> 
> Anyway, you could try mypage at http://www.iavit.org/~john/debian/ for 
> more information. I'll see if I can compile a kernel for debian jessie 
> sometime over the next week. I have eleventy gazillion irons in the fire 
> right now so I cannot promise anything.
> 
> 
> 
> On 05/18/2015 08:20 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> > Thanks all for various comments.
> > I did read the wikki but didn't seem to find anything about speakup.
> > which
> > is my only serious interest in screen readers for now.
> > Yes use brltty also but unfortunately brltty's speech system doesn't
> > support
> > the doubletalk.
> > My box is too slow for software speech unless I want a lot of naps.
> >
> > I believe running version 3.2.60-1+deb7u3
> >
> >
> > Looks like my cowardly best bet is to wait till more experienced users
> > have
> > a go.
> > Since I don't care about multiple desktops only reason to upgrade
> > appears
> > to be so as not to get behind the upgrades and eventually have to
> > entirely
> > reinstall.
> > Thanks
> >    Tom Fowle
> >    wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 12:21 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I did a full net install of Debian Jessie rather than upgrade Wheezy to
> >> Jessie to Wheezy because Jessie gives alternative desktops.
> >>
> >> I picked the Mate desktop and it works very well, and accessibility is
> >> excellent.
> >>
> >> Debian Jessie now includes Emacspeak in the repos, so no need to build
> >> it from source.
> >>
> >> I have found no big accessibility problems.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On 18/05/2015 03:41, acollins at icsmail.net wrote:
> >>> Hi Tom.  I would suggest you test Jessie with a live cd, and if that
> >>> works, then upgrade.
> >>>
> >>> Gene Collins
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Speakup mailing list
> >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael A. Ray
> >> Analyst/Programmer
> >> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
> >>
> >> "In the beginning there was Debian, and Ubuntu was without form, and
> >> void"
> >>
> >> Eyes-free Linux:
> >> http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/
> >>
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> >
> 
> -- 
> John Heim, jheim at math.wisc.edu, skype:john.g.heim
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