From: "Scott Ford" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
