Speechd-up?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

How does this work, how do you get Speakup in console/terminal sessions?

I did get Speechd-up working, but there are two problems.

1. It loads at boot time, then before the login prompt I get an error 
message with a whole ton of numbers, something about firmware failing to 
load. I'm not quite sure where or if it's logged or I'd paste it. Then, 
Mate loads but doesn't have speech, although virtual consoles do.

2. When I'm using Speakup through Speechd-up, it defaults to a speech 
rate waaaaaaaay too slow for my taste, even though I've set a reasonable 
rate in my Speech Dispatcher configuration. Is there a way to set 
Speakup's default rate, pitch, etc? Even if there is, it seems that rate 
5 is a bit too slow, and rate 6 is a bit too fast. I wish it would not 
even touch the settings of the synth, and just let Speech Dispatcher do 
its job.

Also comma, for some reason far too many punctuation marks are being 
read comma, even though Speakup's punctuation level is set to Some dot. 
This is really annoying exclamation point! Is there a fix question mark? 
The punctuation level in Speech Dispatcher's configuration is set to 
None dot. It even speaks annoying punctuations after Speakup messages 
such as Left comma, Right comma, Top comma, and Bottom dot.

Jayson

On 1/29/2019 6:41 PM, Glenn At Home wrote:
> I just run Orca on the Mate desktop, and you get SpeakUp at the terminal.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jayson Smith" <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:57 PM
> Subject: Speechd-up?
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I reinstalled my Debian 9.7 system and selected the Mate desktop this
> time, so I got a desktop and Orca. I installed Voxin, but was wanting to
> have the best of both worlds, being able to use both a console and the
> desktop. So I did some Googling around, and found Speechd-up which is an
> interface between Speakup and Speech Dispatcher. So apt-get install
> speechd-up and we're good to go, I can go have fun and eat barbecue
> sandwiches? Well, not so fast. Below is a log of some errors I was
> getting when Speechd-up tried to start. Today I rebooted, reinstalled
> speech-dup after having removed it last night, and it seemed to install
> okay but still isn't working. Any thoughts?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Jayson
>
>
> -------------------
>
>
> Jan 28 19:38:58 Virgil speechd-up[1998]: Starting Interface between
> speakup and speech-dispatcher : speechd-up[Mon Jan 28 19:38:58 2019]
> speechd: Configuration has been read from "/etc/speechd-up.conf"
> Jan 28 19:38:58 Virgil speechd-up[1998]: Starting speechd-up...
> Jan 28 19:38:58 Virgil speechd-up[1998]: To work, speechd-up needs
> speakup and speakup_soft modules.
> Jan 28 19:38:58 Virgil speechd-up[1998]: They are loaded automatically.
> If you don't want, type
> Jan 28 19:38:58 Virgil speechd-up[1998]: rmmod speakup speakup_soft
> Jan 28 19:39:00 Virgil speechd-up[1998]: failed!
> Jan 28 19:39:00 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Control process
> exited, code=exited status=1
> Jan 28 19:39:00 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Unit entered
> failed state.
> Jan 28 19:39:00 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Failed with
> result 'exit-code'.
> Jan 28 19:46:26 Virgil speechd-up[2098]: Starting Interface between
> speakup and speech-dispatcher : speechd-up[Mon Jan 28 19:46:26 2019]
> speechd: Configuration has been read from "/etc/speechd-up.conf"
> Jan 28 19:46:26 Virgil speechd-up[2098]: Starting speechd-up...
> Jan 28 19:46:26 Virgil speechd-up[2098]: To work, speechd-up needs
> speakup and speakup_soft modules.
> Jan 28 19:46:26 Virgil speechd-up[2098]: They are loaded automatically.
> If you don't want, type
> Jan 28 19:46:26 Virgil speechd-up[2098]: rmmod speakup speakup_soft
> Jan 28 19:46:28 Virgil speechd-up[2098]: failed!
> Jan 28 19:46:28 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Control process
> exited, code=exited status=1
> Jan 28 19:46:28 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Unit entered
> failed state.
> Jan 28 19:46:28 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Failed with
> result 'exit-code'.
> Jan 28 19:50:35 Virgil speechd-up[2175]: Starting Interface between
> speakup and speech-dispatcher : speechd-up[Mon Jan 28 19:50:35 2019]
> speechd: Configuration has been read from "/etc/speechd-up.conf"
> Jan 28 19:50:35 Virgil speechd-up[2175]: Starting speechd-up...
> Jan 28 19:50:35 Virgil speechd-up[2175]: To work, speechd-up needs
> speakup and speakup_soft modules.
> Jan 28 19:50:35 Virgil speechd-up[2175]: They are loaded automatically.
> If you don't want, type
> Jan 28 19:50:35 Virgil speechd-up[2175]: rmmod speakup speakup_soft
> Jan 28 19:50:37 Virgil speechd-up[2175]: failed!
> Jan 28 19:50:37 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Control process
> exited, code=exited status=1
> Jan 28 19:50:37 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Unit entered
> failed state.
> Jan 28 19:50:37 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Failed with
> result 'exit-code'.
> Jan 28 19:51:14 Virgil speechd-up[2313]: Starting Interface between
> speakup and speech-dispatcher : speechd-up[Mon Jan 28 19:51:14 2019]
> speechd: Configuration has been read from "/etc/speechd-up.conf"
> Jan 28 19:51:14 Virgil speechd-up[2313]: Starting speechd-up...
> Jan 28 19:51:14 Virgil speechd-up[2313]: To work, speechd-up needs
> speakup and speakup_soft modules.
> Jan 28 19:51:14 Virgil speechd-up[2313]: They are loaded automatically.
> If you don't want, type
> Jan 28 19:51:14 Virgil speechd-up[2313]: rmmod speakup speakup_soft
> Jan 28 19:51:16 Virgil speechd-up[2313]: failed!
> Jan 28 19:51:16 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Control process
> exited, code=exited status=1
> Jan 28 19:51:16 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Unit entered
> failed state.
> Jan 28 19:51:16 Virgil systemd[1]: speechd-up.service: Failed with
> result 'exit-code'.
>
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