installing ubuntu with speakup

[Volodymyr Dorozhinsky]

Hi David,


I am currently using Ubuntu-Mate 22.04 and I've managed to install 
espeakup package successfully. Do You see any errors during its 
installation? If the package was successfully installed what is the 
output of:


systemctl status espeakup.service


If the service is not running one should start it with:


sudo systemctl start espeakup.service


Also what I've noticed is that espeakup will not talk in tty console 
when orca is running in graphical environment. So to make it work I am 
doing the following steps:

1. Login to graphical environment.

2. In graphical environment (Mate DE in my case) open a terminal and run:


killall orca # WARNING! This will terminate orca


3. Then switch to tty e.g. tty 3 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3 and login 
there. After login espeakup should talk.



Best regards

Volodymyr



On 2/3/23 16:41, David wrote:
>
> Hi there –
>
> After numerous tries, I am still unsuccessful in getting speakup to 
> work with ubuntu, and I contribute that largely to operator error 
> [that’s me!]
>
> So, here I am, asking if anyone has step-by-step instructions on how 
> to install ubuntu from stratch and have speakup working correctly?
>
> Use server version? Use desktop version? Do something else?
>
> I do not need any desktop environments, just the plain command-line 
> interface with speakup
>
> Thank you very much in advance, talk soon
>
> --David
>
>
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