[nfbcs] ubuntu server with speakup

[Jack Heim]

Over the years I've done a variety of things. I used to use debian 
exclusively because of the talking install. I'd get a nice system that 
came up talking and without all the graphical stuff. I still use that 
for most of the stuff I do at home. At work I usually do an ubuntu 
server install via an auto installer called fai, for "fully automated 
install". But I no longer see any advantage to ubuntu server over 
debian. I've started switching machines back from ubuntu server to plain 
old debian. I also manage 2 servers that I set up by installing ubuntu 
desktop and switching to server. There are plenty of howtos out there 
but you'd better have a bootable thumb drive handy before you try it. I 
would recommend just settling for getting rid of X11 and everything that 
depends on it.  Or just install ubuntu desktop and run it like a server.

BTW, I just upgraded the desktop I'm typing this message on from ubuntu 
xenial to zesty. It loads the kernel module for my doubletalk hardware 
speech synth but it doesn't talk. The speakup kernel modules are under 
active development and some of the fixes have made their way into the 
ubuntu kernel. At the moment, they may have made it slighty worse 
because I used to know how to hack the kernel code to make my doubletalk 
work.  Fortunately, I don't really need it on a desktop.





On 06/30/2017 11:30 AM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> Hello:
> Yes, I was looking for something with speech at install. I don't want 
> the GUI and all the extra stuff that comes with the desktop, but I need 
> to be able to actually perform the install without help. Thanks for the 
> tips, I'll see if desktop will let me just not install the GUI components.
> 
> I know Debian has speakup builtin, but for whatever reason I've not 
> actually gotten it to work thus far. I think it's having issues 
> detecting my soundcard. Archlinux can find my soundcard, but I'd rather 
> not run arch if I can avoid it. I like the project, I just never have 
> had luck with upgrades.
> Thanks,
> On 6/30/2017 12:19 PM, Jack Heim via nfbcs wrote:
>> It occurs to me that by "built in", the OP was probably asking if the 
>> speakup kernel modules are built into the ubuntu server kernel. The 
>> answer is that they are. To use software speech, you only need to 
>> install the espeakup package, "apt-get install espeakup".
>>
>> I haven't tried ubuntu zesty (17.04) but the ubuntu server yakkety 
>> install did not have speech. But you can install ubuntu desktop and 
>> change it to server. In fact, ubuntu server and desktop now use the 
>> same kernel so there isn't much point in switching from desktop to 
>> server unless you want to save disk space by removing the gui. On the 
>> other hand, on a server, you might want to stay in the cli and use 
>> speakup. That's what I do on most of the servers I manage. But leaving 
>> the gui on there and using orca is a valid option too.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/29/2017 10:26 PM, David via nfbcs wrote:
>>>
>>> Not sure about ubuntu, but debian, which ubuntu is based, does have 
>>> speakup built-in.
>>>
>>> --David
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10:45 AM 6/29/2017, Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs wrote:
>>>> All:
>>>>
>>>> Does speakup come built in to the ubuntu server installation?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Take Care,
>>>> Tyler Littlefield
>>>>
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> 
> -- 
> 
> Take Care,
> Tyler Littlefield
> 
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