Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

[Hunter Hoke]

No, I didn't install a desktop environment.
I had planned on installing VmWare tools after the install, but that's
impossible with no speech.


On 10/9/16, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
> If you installed a graphical desktop, you're probably being dropped
> into the desktop when you boot. If this is the case, and you're
> logging into the desktop, pulseaudio may not be allowing espeakup to
> speak, because espeakup wants to use alsa directly. When your virtual
> machine boots, do a ctrl+alt+f1 to go to the first text console. Does
> speakup speak at that point if you try to use speakup's review
> commands?
>
> To find out which modules are loaded, you'd use the lsmod
> command. Something like:
>
> lsmod >lsmod.txt
>
> at the shell prompt should dump a list of the currently loaded modules
> into lsmod.txt. Do you have a way to move that file from the virtual
> machine to the host? Something like this should be possible under
> virtualbox for example with a shared folder.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 04:08:12PM -0500, Hunter Hoke wrote:
>> Yes, other sounds work.
>> I'm not sure whether the speakup and speakup_soft modules are loaded,
>> but I know the VM hasn't rebooted into the installation media because
>> I checked the status of the virtual cd/dvd drive.
>
>
>>
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