From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 1906 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at speech; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:38:10 EDT Received: from acsinet14.oracle.com (acsinet14.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB74C1A0A6 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet14.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q2JI6O44029927 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:06:25 GMT Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q2JI6FEX023180 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:06:15 GMT Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2JI6Ep8017343 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:06:14 GMT Received: from abhmt120.oracle.com (abhmt120.oracle.com [141.146.116.72]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q2JI6E81023712 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:06:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:06:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Raikes Sender: Don Raikes To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: RE: speakup and the backtrack 5 linux distro References: In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.6 (510070) [OL 12.0.6607.1000 (x86)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4F677597.0197,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:38:11 -0000 Lexi, First of all, I was working with the folks who created backtrack to make an= accessible version of backtrack. With their help, I got a bootable liveD= VD with brltty support included. Once I had booted into the liveDVD, I added the vinux 3.2.1 repositories to= apt by copying a file containing the vinux apt ppa repositories in it to /= etc/apt/sources.list.d and ran: Apt-get update I installed gnome-orca, espeak, espeak-data and speech-dispatcher using: $ apt-get install gnome-orca espeak espeak-data speech-dispatcher I then ran startx to start the gnome desktop. I gave it about a minute to l= oad up then pressed alt+f2 to open the run window and typed "orca" and hit = enter. The orca settings wizard started. I was able to walk through the setup of = orca without a problem then orca told me I had to log out of gnome and log = back in. When I do this, unfortunately, orca no longer speaks. I think th= ere is something wrong with speech-dispatcher but I haven't been able to fi= gure it out. As for speakup, I simply installed speakup from the repository as follows: $ apt-get install speakup-tools ospeakup To be honest, I would recommend that you start with the vinux 3.2.1 distro = from=20 http://vinux-project.org. While it is a "development version of vinux, it = seems to be quite stable and is based on almost the latest version of ubunt= u. Installing it onto a system either as the only os or in a dual-boot setup i= s fairly simple and doesn't require sighted assistance. The backtrack liveDVD is designed specifically for people interested in per= forming penetration testing and network security tasks while vinux is more = of a general-purpose ubuntu distro. BTW: the vinux liveDVD contains speakup as well and you can boot to the con= sole and have speakup working or you can boot into gnome and have orca wor= king. -----Original Message----- From: Lexi A [mailto:donna.m.aitkens@btinternet.com]=20 Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 10:45 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: RE: speakup and the backtrack 5 linux distro Hi Don Could you explain how you managed to get Speakup working with the backtrack= distro and does it work well? Also gnome orca, how well does that run on = backtrack for you? I'm sorry but I am quite new to linux and I am not sure= how to go about learning and which distros to start with as backtrack, ubu= ntu are the 2 main linux OS that are going to be used at the university I = am hoping to attend. Is there a talking install to install linux backtrack= or would I need sighted assistance to set it up? Sorry for all the questions, Lexi -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca= ] On Behalf Of Don Raikes Sent: 13 March 2012 23:36 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: speakup and the backtrack 5 linux distro Hello, =20 I am working with the folks from offensivesecurity to get their backtrack5 = penetration and network security linux distro to be accessible. =20 So far I have incorporated brltty 4.2 and as of this afternoon I got speaku= p working with it as well. =20 The backtrack5 distro is based on ubuntu 10.4 (lucid), but boots to the con= sole. =20 I have installed gnome-orca onto my virtual machine as well, but I need to = know how do I get speakup to release pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher to or= ca and vice versa? Also are there any plans on making speakup work with other software tts eng= ines like the svox pico synthesizer? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup