Can I add speakup to An Existing Wheezy Installation?

[John G Heim]

Yeah, I don't know about that error message. I would try rebooting. You 
probably want to make the speakup_soft module load automatically each 
time you reboot. To do that, type:

echo speakup_soft >> /etc/modules

You need to do that as root.  If you don't get speech when you reboot, 
try running espeakup by hand.




On 12/05/2016 11:32 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	Thank you. I am glad I asked because there is much less
> to the procedure than I was expecting.
>
> 	The modprobe command worked fine as far as that there were no
> errors reported. The apt-get install worked until the script
> tried to start speakup and then the following happened: Output follows.
>
> 86audio3 martin ~ $sudo apt-get install espeakup
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   espeakup
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
> Need to get 24.9 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 90.1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main espeakup i386 1:0.71-13 [24.9
>  kB]
> Fetched 24.9 kB in 0s (71.7 kB/s)
> Selecting previously unselected package espeakup.
> (Reading database ... 124379 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking espeakup (from .../espeakup_1%3a0.71-13_i386.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Setting up espeakup (1:0.71-13) ...
> [FAIL] Starting Speakup/espeak connector : espeakup failed!
> invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing espeakup (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  espeakup
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> 	What I do know is that this system is a Dell Optiplex
> from probably around 2000 or so and the on-board sound card is a
> built-in cs4236 which works well with aplay, amixer and alsa in
> general but has never been too eager to work with let's say,
> ubuntu live CD's and other bootable CD's that talk on most
> systems. This device shows up as card 0 and aplay -l and arecord
> -l both produce good results so I may need to do some more
> experimentation to see what else is wrong.
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> Martin McCormick
>
> John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> writes:
>> If you are using a stock debian kernel, you don't have to add speakup. You
>> just have to load it. I am guessing though that you are asking how to load
>> speakup, right? Well, that depends on which speech synth you are using. I
>> am going to guess you want to use software speech, right? In that case,
>> you
>> will have to add the espeak package. Here are the steps:
>>
>>
>> 1. Type "modprobe speakup_soft"
>> 2. Type "apt-get install espeakup"
>>
>> Your machine should start talking.
>>
>>
>> technically not speakup.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/04/2016 01:16 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>>
>>             The subject is really the whole message. The wheezy
>>     installation is on a system with 384 MB of ram so there is no
>>     orca but I have seen speakup run on less although this is
>>     scraping the bottom of the barrel.
>>
>>     Any good ideas are welcome. Thank you.
>>
>>     Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
>>
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