Speakup in Debian

[Sukil Etxenike]

Hi,
I am new to Speakup and Linux in general. I've installed Debian Jessie,
and for some reason, when I Press ctrl+Alt+F1-6, Speakup doesn't talk.
My current setup is a s follows:
I have Espeakup installed and /etc/init.d/espeakup status reports that
it is active. Also, in /etc/modules.conf I have the line:
speakup_soft
However, it doesn't talk, as I said. Am I missing something obvious
here?
Thanks,
Sukil

[Willem van der Walt]

First thing I would check if I have sound in the console.
Then using lsmod, that speakup_soft indeed was loaded.
Then using ps that espeakup is actually running.
HTH, Willem

Post by Sukil Etxenike
Hi,
I am new to Speakup and Linux in general. I've installed Debian Jessie,
and for some reason, when I Press ctrl+Alt+F1-6, Speakup doesn't talk.
I have Espeakup installed and /etc/init.d/espeakup status reports that
speakup_soft
However, it doesn't talk, as I said. Am I missing something obvious
here?
Thanks,
Sukil
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[Sukil Etxenike]

Hi,
If I type `espeak "hi"` in a console, I only get sound as a normal
user. I have also followed the other instructions and have checked that
speakup_soft is loaded and that espeakup is enabled, without specifying
any TTY or rather "?". I still get no sound.
Thanks,
Sukil

Post by Willem van der Walt
First thing I would check if I have sound in the console.
Then using lsmod, that speakup_soft indeed was loaded.
Then using ps that espeakup is actually running.
HTH, Willem

Post by Sukil Etxenike
Hi,
I am new to Speakup and Linux in general. I've installed Debian Jessie,
and for some reason, when I Press ctrl+Alt+F1-6, Speakup doesn't talk.
I have Espeakup installed and /etc/init.d/espeakup status reports that
speakup_soft
However, it doesn't talk, as I said. Am I missing something obvious
here?
Thanks,
Sukil
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[Gregory Nowak]

Do you also have a GUI desktop with orca installed? If yes, you may be
running into the problem where speech-dispatcher grabs the sound card
through pulseaudio, and doesn't give espeakup access to it through
alsa. I haven't used pulse in a long time, so don't recall exactly how
to check this.
If this is the case, you can edit speech-dispatcher's config file, and tell it
not to use pulse. I believe there's also a way to get espeakup and
speech-dispatcher to play nicely with pulse, but someone else will
have to cover that, assuming my recall of this being possible is
correct.

Greg

Post by Sukil Etxenike
Hi,
If I type `espeak "hi"` in a console, I only get sound as a normal
user. I have also followed the other instructions and have checked that
speakup_soft is loaded and that espeakup is enabled, without specifying
any TTY or rather "?". I still get no sound.
Thanks,
Sukil