making distros like Asterisk at Home talk from installupthrough daily use

Sat Jun 17 19:18:09 UTC 2006

OK, some facts.

Asterisk is 100% accessible.

Asterisk is not simple.

Asterisk does not require a special kernel.

You may need additional kernel modules for some PBX hardware, but these
compile separately.

Asterisk works 100% with Speakup

Working asterisk rpms and deb files are available that work with
Speakup, so stick to Fedora 5 or to recent Debian.

There are a fair number of us Speakup users running our own Asterisk PBX
systems. I've got one, and the IVR that answers Capital Accessibility
phone calls is running on our Asterisk server on Fedora.

If you go looking for native voip handsets, many of us are particularly
preferring Snom 320 and the soon to be available Snom 300. I use my 320
all the time. In fact, I now have 3 of them.

Janina

Brent Harding writes:
> Actually it's not necessarily the web part I want to work with Speakup, but 
> the linux it comes with. I thought I heard one can just get a tar ball and 
> install it into anything. What I mean is how I'd put in a Kernel that 
> speaks versus one that doesn't so I can use the linux console of the system 
> once it's up to find the IP that gets assigned and to set up dynamic DNS 
> and a few other things I want on there.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: making distros like Asterisk at Home talk from 
> installupthrough daily use
> 
> 
> >The Asterisk At Home page says it's a web gui. So, if you want it to
> >work with Speakup, go fix the web markup so it will run with lynx or
> >elinks or maybe edbrowse.
> >
> >You're rather asking how to use a hammer to slice an orange, sir.
> >
> >Janina
> >
> >Brent Harding writes:
> >>Actually, it's a distribution iso image that contains CentOS, the 
> >>Asterisk
> >>software which it compiles after the install reboots the system, and
> >>various web and console config tools so you don't have to mess with the
> >>complex config files that often. I would control it remotely, but my 
> >>other
> >>machine is XP and Windows Telnet and JFW doesn't work well to edit files 
> >>on
> >>remote systems and I never cared for Festival with Oralux. I wonder how 
> >>I'd
> >>throw in a talking Kernel and not make the module dependencies not be
> >>mismatched? I'd rather just install the rest of the package over my 
> >>Fedora
> >>I already left on there, but they built it around this distro.
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> >>To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> >>Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:24 PM
> >>Subject: Re: making distros like Asterisk at Home talk from install
> >>upthrough daily use
> >>
> >>
> >>>Why? Why particularly Asterisk At Home when Asterisk itselfs works
> >>>perfectly well with Speakup.
> >>>
> >>>Isn't Asterisk At Home a gui front end to Asterisk? Or, did I miss
> >>>something here?
> >>>
> >>>Brent Harding writes:
> >>>>Hi there! I want to know how I could make Asterisk at Home run with a
> >>>>speakup-enabled Kernel, especially through the installation and all? I
> >>>>want
> >>>>to use the Asterisk system and Voip and heard this was the easiest way 
> >>>>to
> >>>>do it My old machine I want to make into a Linux box has some core of
> >>>>Fedora on its secondary 6.whatever gig drive, and the 30 gig has 98 on
> >>>>that
> >>>>I just want certain files of and that will then be reformatted, and it
> >>>>has
> >>>>my double talk board I used with that distro. Assuming that the Fedora 
> >>>>on
> >>>>there is still bootable and I remember the Root password, how would I
> >>>>modify the iso of the Asterisk at Home distro so I could have talking
> >>>>install and then boot into a talking system? I heard this is the 
> >>>>easiest
> >>>>way of running such a system because you get the webbased admin tools
> >>>>that
> >>>>are set up for that distro. The last time I tried just replacing the
> >>>>Kernel
> >>>>on an install disk and reburning, I got module error disaster. How do I
> >>>>prevent that this time?
> >>>>
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> >>>-- 
> >>>
> >>>Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272
> >>>Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
> >>>
> >>>Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and
> >>>Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
> >>>
> >>>Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> >>>janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
> >>>
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> >Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
> >
> >Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and 
> >Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
> >
> >Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> >janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
> >
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.240.715.1272
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org