OK let me try that and see if it comes up --David
-----Original Message----- From: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2023 5:00 PM To: David <bear...@yahoo.com>; 'Volodymyr Dorozhinsky' <dorozhin...@ukr.net>; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: RE: installing ubuntu with speakup Default for speakup is speakup-soft and you don't mess around with any lists. You just do sysctl enable espeakup then reboot. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 3 Feb 2023, David wrote: > > > 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-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com> On Behalf Of Volodymyr > Dorozhinsky > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2023 9:27 AM > To: ubuntu-accessibility@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 > > > > > > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
