looking for a speakup/speech dispatcher / orca expert

[Don Raikes]

Hi all,

 

I am working on a derrative of debian called kali for penetration testing/computer forensics (actually I am working with the folks at offensive security) to help make the distro accessible.

 

So far we have a wheezy based distro that has an accessible installer, and orca starts on the gdm boot screen so it is possible to login  to gnome-classic.  After login, orca works fine.

 

My problem is that sometimes I want to run terminal sessions outside of gnome, but Speakup won't start even though it is installed.

 

Can anyone point me to some docs on getting orca, Speakup and speech-dispatcher to work together?