If you run ubuntu, speakup should already be in your kernel.
At your terminal in the GUI, do sudo su
then modprobe speakup_soft start=1
You should just get back to a prompt.
Then from your console, run espeakup
If it works, you can automate all of this.
Also make sure you have sound in the
Howdy,
seems that speakup is not installed on your system. in case of success
it should not give any output to you.
speakup lives in the "staging" area of the kernel. that means it is
considered to be unstable/ experimental. the result of this is that not
every linux distribution ships the
Howdy,
speakup is an kernel module.
installing stuff from tarballs is not the best idea in case of kernel
modules i think.
you need to care about updating it by yourself. that sayd.
you cannot run speakup. it needs to be loaded into the kernel
"sudo modprobe speakup speakup_soft"
after doing
Hi,
Speakup is a kernel module. Since you're using Ubuntu - it's probably
already available, so you don't need to install it separately.
Furthermore, it's no longer distributed as a separate package, but it's
included in the Linux Kernel itself, so you've probably downloaded
something very old.
If
I'm trying to use speakup with espeakup.
Espeakup says: "Unable to open the soft synth device: no such file or
directory".
I thought I'd installed speakup, but typing it gives "command not found".
I just downloaded a speakup tarball (that took some digging). Running
the makefile produces two
Hi,
Do you use espeakup or speechd-up, or some hardware synthesizer?
If you use espeakup or speechd-up, kill all instances and start it from the
graphical terminal with sudo.
Then, switch to some text console and log in - you probably won't have speech
on the login prompt.
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Best wishes,
I'm using Orca on Ubuntu MATE. I want to use several terminal
applications because I'm unsatisfied with the desktop apps I currently
use.
Orca's terminal support sucks.
I've installed speakup, but it never runs when I switch to terminal.
Any suggestions for fixes I might try? Thanks.
