Help with running Speakup on Kali Linux

[Janina Sajka]

Okash is correct, but this guidance presumes Kali Linux actually
provides those modules, i.e. the staging kernel modules. Does it? I,
personally, don't know Kali well enough to say without doing some
research.

So, Timothy, perhaps you should tell us how you are accessing your Kali
installation? Are you using Orca in the gui? Even though you intend to
drop the gui eventually? If so, you can open a Gnome-Terminal session
and issue a command like:

locate speakup.ko

If this returns a pointer to the file, you have the staging modules
installed, and Okash's advice is the next step. Or perhaps the step
after you get software speech installed--espeak and then espeakup would
be the easiest path for that.

Lastly, you should probably wait to have Speakup working for you before
eliminating the gui--especially if Orca is your current access. Once you
are ready, though, the process is likely a set of systemctl commands as
most Linux today are system d driven.

hth

Janina

Okash Khawaja writes:
> Hi Timothy,
> 
> Welcome to speakup :)
> 
> There is http://linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt which should help.
> Basically you need two kernel modules loaded. One is speakup.ko and
> the other depends upon which synthesizer you want to use. So for
> example for Apollo you'll need speakup_apollo.ko. You can also use
> software synth speakup_soft.ko if you don't have a hardware synth. All
> supported synths are mentioned in spkguide linked above.
> 
> If it's a hardware synth then the two kernel modules is all you need.
> If it's speakup_soft.ko then some user-space text-to-speech software
> will be required. If you can explain where you're getting stuck then
> we can help more :)
> 
> Cheers!
> Okash
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:36 AM, Timothy Breitenfeldt
> <timothyjb310 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, i recently installed Kali onto an old laptop. I would really like
> > to just run Kali in console mode and completely ignore the GUI .To do
> > this, I know I need speakup. I found a couple refferences in the
> > archives for this mailing list, but I couldn't get it to work with the
> > instructions given. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get
> > speakup running on Kali, as well as how to switch from Gnome desktop
> > to just a console?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > TJ Breitenfeldt
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Janina Sajka

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