Installing orca and making it play nice with Speakup

[Littlefield, Tyler]

I forgot one thing in my last post. I've done the install of orca on 
Debian through apt just to see how it goes. It came up speaking, and it 
showed the window, but it was really weird because it did not let me 
give it any feedback. It just rambled and rambled and wouldn't accept 
anything. Has anyone played with this before? Any tips there would be cool.
On 1/26/2012 2:51 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> Hello all:
> I have a couple of questions, most of which is just clarification.
> I am really interested in making a sort of live cd, as well as 
> something that could be installed for both GUI and cli usage. I'm 
> bouncing between arch and Debian, but I think all of these questions 
> apply.
>
> First, I know there is a lot of trouble making speakup and orca work 
> together, for example with audio. If I understand this right, pulse 
> works through Alsa. Is there a way that Speakup could just be 
> designated to work with Alsa, or perhaps Espeakup could be modified to 
> work with Pulse, then everything could run happily through Pulse. How 
> have you all handled this in the past?
>
> My other issue is setting up the live cd/installer. I know about 
> squashfs, which is used on a lot of live/installation cds. How hard is 
> something like this to get going? I remember a project a while back--I 
> think I looked into it when I was trying to help Vinux, but from what 
> I remember it died off. What sorts of tools are used for the 
> installers and just the live cd creation in general?
>


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