getting speakup to work in ubuntu

[Jude DaShiell]

sysctl enable espeakup && sysctl start espeakup
may help.


On Sun, 10 Jul 2022, David wrote:

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> Hi there - new to ubuntu, but not with linux or speakup
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> With sighted help, I was able to install ubuntu server 22.04 LTS
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> Question 1: is it possible to install with speech, without sighted help?
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> After the machine booted up, I ran this and got no message [no news is good
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> # modprobe speakup_soft
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> So I installed 'espeakup' which brought in a bunch of other packages:
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> # apt-get install espeakup
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> And I get no speech,rebooted and that did not change anything
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> Question 2: did I missed something?
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> Any comments/help/direction/instruction appreciated, thank you very much in
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> --David
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