Help with running Speakup on Kali Linux

Tue Jan 30 09:12:46 EST 2018

So, I have to ask, why Kali Linux, specifically? It's strikes me as a
rather oddball choice.

The post you reference below isn't particularly pertinent to running
Speakup, and you still haven't told us whether Kali comes with Speakup,
or whether it's on you to add it into the installation. Once again,
what's the output of:

locate speakup.ko

Suggestion: You may have much more success with a distribution like Arch
which supports Speakup out of the box, and which has a talking
installation available:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TalkingArch

If you go this way you'll only have the console unless you explicitly
install a GUI desktop.

There are other choices, but the above is a good way to get to a
functioning system with minimul fuss.

Janina

Timothy Breitenfeldt writes:
> 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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> >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > --
> > Well that's it then, colour me secure!
> >
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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