live Ubuntu cd with Orca

[Chris Norman]

From: "Scott Ford" <scott at adaptiveit.us>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:23 AM
Subject: RE: live Ubuntu cd with Orca


> Chris,
> When the cd stops its initial spin, press f5, then pres 3, then
> press enter.  This will start the screen reader right after ubuntu starts
> up.  There is a great help site that outlines this much better then I am
> doing.  Now that it is installed on my hard drive the screenreader starts
> automaticly.  My login is not voiced.  However the ubuntu startup sound
> clues me into when to enter my username and password.  I will look for 
> that
> site and post it later if I find it.  Now I have a question.  How do I
> initialize speakup in ubuntu when I am in a terminal session?  I would 
> like
> to use the festival software synth that should already be active, I think?

Do you have speech-dispatcher and speechd-up? Wouldn't you just:
modprobe speakup_sftsyn; speech-dispatcher -d; speechd-up -d
?

HTH.