Starting Speakup on a Debian Virtual Machine

Gregory Nowak greg at gregn.net
Sun Oct 30 20:49:32 EDT 2016


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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