Re: [orca-list] Enabling Espeakup on Ubuntu 14.04

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi,

Here is what I use to get speech in the console in Ubuntu.  I am assuming
you successfully installed speakup and espeakup with the method you
described in your post.  And yes, this will work in 14.04:

1.  Open a terminal in Gnome.
2.  sudo modprobe speakup_soft start=1
3.  sudo espeakup
4.  Control alt f1 to get back to the console and log in as myself.
5.  Espeak will stutter a bit and then settle down to speak via speakup.

It will not work if you are not logged in on the console.  It doesn't matter
if you log in before or after running the commands but, you do have to log
in to at least one console session.  Also, switching back and forth from the
console produces a slight crackle and stutter from e-speak before it settles
down and stabilizes.  I consider it a small price to pay if it means I get a
talking console and a talking GUI.  To further sing its praises to the sky,
this method works for me each and every single time.  

HTH,
Alex M

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Willem van
der Walt
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:57 AM
To: luciano de souza
Cc: orca-list
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Enabling Espeakup on Ubuntu 14.04

This is likely the wrong forum, b ut you can at the point you described,
simply trun the command sudo espeakup and if you are lucky, should have
speech at the console.
the command:
sudo /etc/init.d/espeakup start
might also work.
This only will work in true consoles, but I assume you know that.
HTH, Willem


On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, luciano de souza wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I don't know if this is the best forum to make this type of question.
> In a large concept, we can say it pertains to the Orca's world. But if 
> you regard more appropriately I post it in another place, let me know.
>
> Orca is trully a very nice tool. But I want to write HTML with Zen 
> coding. Firstly, I found a plugin to Gedit. However, when Gnome was 
> updated and a new version of Gedit launched, this support was taken 
> off. Luckly, there are also plugins to Vin and Emacs. but at this 
> point, I couldn't use Orca to do this task.
>
> I friend has explained how to activate Espeakup. the procedures are:
>
> 1. To install Espeakup and Speakup on Ubuntu:
>
> sudo apt-get install speakup
> sudo apt-get install espeakup
>
> 2. To load the kernell module of both:
> sudo modprobe speakup
> sudo modprobe speakup_soft
>
> 3. To verify if the modules are loaded:
> lsmod|grep speakup
>
> The output of the last command is:
>
> speakup_soft           13765  0
> speakup               102944  1 speakup_soft
>
> If I correctly interpreted, espeakup-soft  is loaded, but not Speakup.
>
> Well, the problem seems to be that I need to load Espeakup. The friend 
> could not help me at this point becose he is a Archlinux user. So for 
> him, the command is:
>
> sudo systemctl  start espeakup.service
>
> Unfortunately, this command does not exist in Ubuntu 14.04. So my question
is:
> 1. On ubuntu, are these the correct steps?
> 2. What is the command to enable Espeakup on Ubuntu?
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Luciano de Souza
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