installing ubuntu with speakup

[David]

OK let me take another look tomorrow before I wipe out the whole thing again, but from what I remember espeakup installed successfully, but I am unable to find speakup_soft on the module list, and thus no speech

 

I don’t want GUI anyway, so I was using server 22.04 

 

--David

 

 

From: Ubuntu-accessibility <ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> On Behalf Of Volodymyr Dorozhinsky
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2023 9:27 AM
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: installing ubuntu with speakup

 

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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