creating a speakup cli cd

[Tony Baechler]

I had to give up on GRML.  First, it installs a ton of extra packages that 
are unnecessary, but that's a different issue.  The two recent releases I've 
tried did not come up talking and I couldn't get Speakup to start by hand. 
I ended up throwing away two different CDs because I couldn't get them to 
work.  I'm sorry, but I can no longer recommend it.  You can do pretty much 
the same thing with the Debian Squeeze live CD if you have hardware speech. 
  If you have software speech, it only takes one command to install espeakup 
by hand.  As mentioned in my previous mail, it looks very easy to create a 
custom live CD with the Speakup packages already included which would come 
up talking.  It already includes a number of rescue tools and it's easy to 
add more.

On 2/5/2013 1:11 PM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> I think wanting to create this type of CD is admirable, however, the
> grml rescue disks already have these items as far as I know. They are
> designed as a rescue system and I have installed the last five or six
> systems I've set-up with it. I'm not quite sure what you could
> provide that isn't already part of grml. They have always been
> accessibility friendly, right from their inception.
>
> I'd suggest at least burning one and learning about them before you
> redesign a wheel. You could even get involved with helping them if
> you find them useful.
>
> Once you boot the most recent all you do is modprobe speakup_soft
> after the beedley-bop sound it makes to let one know it is finished
> booting and them type espeakup to start the speech output. Very
> simple. I'm sure it's just as simple to start brltty. Maybe even
> easier.