live Ubuntu cd with Orca

[John covici]

But this is inside gnome -- so speakup wouldn't do much good there.

on Friday 11/24/2006 Chris Norman(cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk) wrote
 > 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. 
 > 
 > 
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