From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 2D5971EF85E; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:33:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2D891EF838 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:33:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id tBVCWx09003617 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:32:59 -0500 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Getting speakup to run on debian In-reply-to: References: <558A5D8D.20209@gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Steve Matzura message dated "Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:08:46 -0500." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3615.1451565179.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:32:59 -0500 Message-ID: <3616.1451565179@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-tBVCX0EJ027599 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:33:07 -0000 You need a speech synthesizer, and that is not part of speakup. You either need espeakup, or speechd-up and speech dispatcher, which has worked great for me, although I mostly use hardware speech. Steve Matzura wrote: > I just installed a fresh Jessie yesterday. The install was assisted by > Speakup, which I started at the install screen main menu by pressing > s. I was quite impressed with the way it all worked, with one > silly exception: There was a screen with 78 choices, one per line, and > I couldn't figure out how to scroll the screen backward to read the > first and second screens of choices, so I just went with the default > choice, which turned out to be the correct one for me for the question > being asked. Very impressive. No Orca, no forms, just straight CLI. I > love CLI. > > Now then, the system is up and running, there's no desktop, I boot > directly to the login prompt, and now I want to get Speakup working on > the console terminals. Someone named Samuel from Debian accessibility > told me I should install the espeakup package, but apt-get can't find > it. What'd I do wrong? And why would I even need to be doing this > since obviously Speakup is included in the install, you'd think, or at > least I did, that it would already exist on the system and be able to > be run. > > Thanks in advance for any and all assistance and advice. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com