From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7C6B01EF132; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:38:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 312BF1EF11C for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:37:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF9846FC7 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:37:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VPxs1n_pb7cj for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:37:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A02046D6A for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:37:27 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mta1.math.wisc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-101.0 required=6.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (erdos.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.25]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:37:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [144.92.166.19] (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 374C8B09144 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:37:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <558AC0A7.3080402@math.wisc.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:37:27 -0500 From: John G Heim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Getting speakup to run on debian References: <558A5D8D.20209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558A5D8D.20209@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:38:46 -0000 It is probably a conflict with pulseaudio and alsa. Right now I am a little fuzzy on the details but I believe that orca and gnome load pulse drivers and espeak needs alsa. You can test whether this is the problem by not logging into the GUI before running espeak. So at the gnome login screen, press control+alt+f1 to get to the console, log in and start espeakup. Then go back to the login screen by pressing control+alt+f7 and log into the gui. Make sure orca is running. Then go back once again to the console by pressing control+alt+f1. At this point, I will bet that software speech is not working for you. I think you can fix this by recompiling espeakup to default to using pulseaudio. Instructions for that are somewhere on google. If you can't find them, I can probably dig them out again. On 06/24/2015 02:34 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote: > Hello, > I just installed debian and can't figure out how to get speakup to work. > I type ctrl+meta+f1 to open the terminal, then I type espeakup. I get > the message that espeakup is already running. But I can't get any output > from typing or moving around. I know speakup is running because I have > it in a VM and sometimes speakup and Orca like to say random words and > speakup just said something to me, but I can't hear anything. I also > don't get speech on any log-in screen. > Thanks, > -- John Heim, jheim@math.wisc.edu, skype:john.g.heim