I need to get speakup to wirk. Suggestions?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Howdy,

seems that speakup is not installed on your system. in case of success 
it should not give any output to you.
speakup lives in the "staging" area of the kernel. that means it is 
considered to be unstable/ experimental. the result of this is that not 
every linux distribution ships the speakup module by default.
Maybe ubuntu is one of that distributions. i just found an old blog 
entry of storm that let me think that speakup is not shipped with the 
ubuntu kernel (information without warranty, since i cannot look at.)
https://stormdragon.tk/installing-speakup-in-ubuntu/
sadly i m not using ubuntu so i cannot give any assistance in "how to 
install it without need to compile your own kernel" then. maybe some 
ubuntu user is here that can help you more experienced. maybe there is a 
PPA or something that provides speakup.

maybe you wanna try vinux (based on ubuntu) or sonar (based on manjaro/ 
antergos/ arch). those distros are made for blind and visual impaired 
people and have that stuff preinstalled for sure.

cheers chrys

Am 01.08.2017 um 00:10 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
> I got the same error: could not insert 'speakup': key not available.
> I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS.
>
> On 7/31/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> speakup is an kernel module.
>> installing stuff from tarballs is not the best idea in case of kernel
>> modules i think.
>> you need to care about updating it by yourself. that sayd.
>> you cannot run speakup. it needs to be loaded into the kernel
>> "sudo modprobe speakup speakup_soft"
>> after doing that you might be able to install and run "espeakup" to use
>> espeak as speech synth for speakup.
>> by the way, what distribution are you using? maybe i m to "blind ;)" to
>> find that very useful information.
>> if speakup is available as package in your distribution you should
>> prefer that way instead of using a tarball.
>>
>> if you are using a more current system like Arch or Antergos you will be
>> able to install "fenrir-git" via AUR. that is an basic userspace
>> screenreader without need of kernel module stuff.
>>
>> cheers chrys
>>
>> Am 31.07.2017 um 22:29 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>>> I'm trying to use speakup with espeakup.
>>> Espeakup says: "Unable to open the soft synth device: no such file or
>>> directory".
>>> I thought I'd installed speakup, but typing it gives "command not found".
>>> I just downloaded a speakup tarball (that took some digging). Running
>>> the makefile produces two errors that I don't understand.
>>>
>>> What is speachd-up? Do I need it in addition to speakup and espeakup?
>>>
>>> On 7/31/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Do you use espeakup or speechd-up, or some hardware synthesizer?
>>>> If you use espeakup or speechd-up, kill all instances and start it from
>>>> the
>>>> graphical terminal with sudo.
>>>> Then, switch to some text console and log in - you probably won't have
>>>> speech on the login prompt.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Zahari
>>>>
>>>>     Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>> Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 01:53:38PM -0500
>>>>
>>>>> I'm using Orca on Ubuntu MATE. I want to use several terminal
>>>>> applications because I'm unsatisfied with the desktop apps I currently
>>>>> use.
>>>>> Orca's terminal support sucks.
>>>>> I've installed speakup, but it never runs when I switch to terminal.
>>>>> Any suggestions for fixes I might try? Thanks.
>>>>>
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