Help with running Speakup on Kali Linux

Sat Jan 27 12:14:45 EST 2018

Probably the way to get back to gnome will be control-alt-f7, since
usually the video display is on the 7th virtual console.

Did you do the locate command suggested in a previous post to see
whether your system has the speakup modules?

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:47:12 -0500,
Timothy Breitenfeldt wrote:
> 
> Thank you for the replies. I am still fairly new to using Linux, I am
> a computer science major and am currently taking a C and unix class
> right now. I now feel comfortable enough with the basics to switch to
> using only a shell for access. I have played with Linux for a while,
> and have always preferred the console over Gnome desktop GUI for
> accessibility. I have almost no vision, and am currently using orca.
> 
> Here is the link to the post I referred to on getting speakup running on Kali.
> 
> http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/2015-May/058755.html
> 
> I followed all of the instructions here, and saw no change. Speakup
> never came up talking at the bootup screen. I tried typing speakup
> into the terminal while in gnome, but it didn't recognize the command.
> 
> I don't know much about the kernel yet, it is something I will learn
> next quarter along with other operating system concepts.
> 
> Thank you for the tip on switching to console mode. I would assume
> that I can switch back to Gnome using the same shortcut I used to
> switched to console mode (ctrl+alt+ 1-6)?
> 
> Can someone take a look at this post and see if you can help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> TJ Breitenfeldt
> 
> On 1/27/18, Kirk Reiser <kirk at reisers.ca> wrote:
> > To answer the other portion of your query, to move from a gui console
> > to a text console just type control-alt-f1 or any other of the
> > function keys from 1 to six. You can learn to kill off gnome and gdm at
> > a later point if you find you're happy using console mode.
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, Okash Khawaja wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> >
> > --
> > Well that's it then, colour me secure!
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