Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

[Hunter Hoke]

I did. I typed Espeak hello, and nothing happened.

On 10/30/16, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 03:53:17PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
>> What kind of virtual machine? With virtualbox, you can take a
>> screenshot and pipe it to tesseract. It gives you somewhat scrambled
>> text but you probably will be able to make it out.
>
> I believe the OP mentioned earlier in this thread that vmware was
> being used.
>
>> On 10/30/2016 02:27 PM, Hunter Hoke wrote:
>> >I think there's a problem with espeak itself; I tried running espeak
>> >from the command line and there was no speech output.
>
> If all you did is type espeak <enter>, then that's no surprise, since
> you need to give espeak something to say for it to produce output.
>
> Greg
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