getting speakup to work in ubuntu

[Monica Ayhens-Madon]

Thank you for the advice, Jude!

David, were you able to get this working using Jude's tips?

Monica Ayhens-Madon
Ubuntu Community Representative, Canonical

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 1:31 PM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > After the machine booted up, I ran this and got no message [no news is
> good
> > news?]
> >
> >
> >
> > # modprobe speakup_soft
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> >
> >
> > So I installed 'espeakup' which brought in a bunch of other packages:
> >
> >
> >
> > # apt-get install espeakup
> >
> >
> >
> > And I get no speech,rebooted and that did not change anything
> >
> >
> >
> > Question 2: did I missed something?
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> >
> > Any comments/help/direction/instruction appreciated, thank you very much
> in
> > advance
> >
> >
> >
> > --David
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> >
> >
> >
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