Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Sun Oct 30 16:53:17 EDT 2016


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.


vboxmanage controlvm $VMNAME screenshotpng $PNGFILE
tesseract $PNGFILE stdout

On 10/30/2016 02:27 PM, Hunter Hoke wrote:
> If the speakup and speakup_soft modules are loaded, I have no way of
> finding out.
> I think there's a problem with espeak itself; I tried running espeak
> from the command line and there was no speech output.
>
> On 10/9/16, Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote:
>> Hunter Hoke <hokehunterj at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I managed to install Debian with speech. However, I cannot get Speakup
>>> started after the installation.
>> Is the speakup_soft module loaded?
>> lsmod |grep speakup
>> Is espeakup running?
>> ps -e |grep espeakup
>>
>> -- Chris
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