installing ubuntu with speakup

[David]

]0;root at ubuntu: ~root at ubuntu:~# systemctl status espeakup.service

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[0;1;31m●[0m espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup[m

     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; enabled; vendor pres[m[7m>[27m

     Active: [0;1;31mfailed[0m (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2023-02-06 19:49:21 UTC; 26s [m[7m>[27m

       Docs: man:espeakup(8)[m

    Process: 1748 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c modprobe speakup_soft && /usr/bin/espeak[m[7m>[27m

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Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: [0;1;39m[0;1;31m[0;1;39mespeakup.service: Control process exited, cod[m[7m>[27m

Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: [0;1;38;5;185m[0;1;39m[0;1;38;5;185mespeakup.service: Failed with result 'exit-co[m[7m>[27m

Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: [0;1;31m[0;1;39m[0;1;31mFailed to start Software speech output for Sp[m[7m>[27m

Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Scheduled restart job, rest[m[7m>[27m

Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: Stopped Software speech output for Speakup.[m

Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: [0;1;38;5;185m[0;1;39m[0;1;38;5;185mespeakup.service: Start request repeated too [m[7m>[27m

Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: [0;1;38;5;185m[0;1;39m[0;1;38;5;185mespeakup.service: Failed with result 'exit-co[m[7m>[27m

Feb 06 19:49:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: [0;1;31m[0;1;39m[0;1;31mFailed to start Software speech output for Sp[m[7m>[27m

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[K[?1l>]0;root at ubuntu: ~root at ubuntu:~# systemctl start espeakup.service

Job for espeakup.service failed because the control process exited with error code.

See "systemctl status espeakup.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

]0;root at ubuntu: ~root at ubuntu:~# ei[Ke[K[Kexit

 

 

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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