On 10/20/2018 3:17 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Some blind people really like keyboard because it's easier than "Pin > the Mouse on the Screen" game on the Graphical User Interface (GUI). > > Many use emac with emacspeak. Emacspeak really focuses the speech by > just saying what is needed but if you already have espeak running, it > speaks twice. > > In the Accessible Setup in Debian, I wish to suggest that a selection > for "CLI Desktop" with text browsers, command line utilities, and of > course espeak or other speech. > > If I try to set up just by selecting Utilities in the regular Text > mode set up, I don't get sound and of course speech. > > emacspeak in console is excellent, to use all it's features you have > to install mplayer but the mplayer with just command line seems to > have gone away. Now if you install mplayer you bring in many programs > including cups and many fonts. Mplayer command line would keep a CLI > install nice and small. > > I also don't know how to kill espeak so that I just have emacspeak talking. >
If by 'espeak' you are refering to 'espeakup', on Debian 8 or above you could try to disable the service: $ systemctl disable espeakup The 'disable' keyword will disable the service from starting at boot, use 'stop' or 'start' to manually stop and start the service. -- John Doe
