Speakup-enabling recovery or administrative distributions

[John G. Heim]

Have you heard of grml? Grml (pronounced gremel) is a lot like system rescue CD but it supports software speech and has some other accessibility features. You do need to load the speakup_soft module and run espeakup after the system boots. But it helps you to know when to type the commands by beeping. It also has built in braille support. 

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On Dec 1, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Techswing33 <techswing33 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm wanting to use Speakup/Espeakup to enable speech in what are for
> me now inaccessible circumstances.
> 
> The first is when using a distro for secure wiping a hard disk called
> Derick's Boot and Nuke, DBAN. I've got a bunch of drives in both
> personal and professional capacity that I need to securely erase prior
> to sending them out.
> 
> The second circumstance is to enable speech on a distro called System
> Rescue CD, for doing low level tasks on various Linux and Windows
> boxes, resetting or clearing passwords, backing up partition
> configurations, comes immediately to mind.
> 
> I'd like to remaster both of these distros, DBAN, and System Rescue
> CD, with Speakup included. My emphasis will be software speech with
> espeakup because I do not have a hardware synthesizer, so integrating
> audio support would also be essential.
> 
> If anyone has done this i'd appreciate any help/pointers.
> 
> Thanks.
> Dave.
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