But this is inside gnome -- so speakup wouldn't do much good there. on Friday 11/24/2006 Chris Norman(cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk) wrote > From: "Scott Ford" <scott at adaptiveit.us> > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
