Oralux is a Knoppix customization, the self-installing flavor created by Klaus Knopper.
Oralux boots up from the CD, whatever the already installed operating system (Win98, XP,...) may be.
Oralux includes, thanks to BRLTTY, a number of braille drivers.

The audio environments
The Oralux user interface can be based on Emacspeak the Audio Desktop created by T. V. Raman. Emacspeak offers a complete and powerful desktop.
A second environment is available based on Yasr, the lightweight and portable screen reader by Mike Gorse.
The third environment is based on Speakup, by Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan. Speakup is a kernel-based screen reader for external or software synthesizers.
The CD includes several voice synthesizers in English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
Oralux can install the DECtalk software synthesizer (4.6.4 or 5.0), a multi language TTS from the Fonix company.

Ease the access to GNU/Linux
Oralux hopes to facilitate access to GNU/Linux for the visually impaired.
Firstly, through lowering the barrier by facilitating installation of the necessary software.
At the moment, the current version offers an experienced user a quick way to have GNU/Linux working on a PC.
The Oralux project must go further.

We hope to help and guide the newbie to reach the following initial stages:

• starting with Emacspeak, Yasr or Speakup,
• finding relevant documentation and browsing it,
• receiving and sending emails,
• browsing the web,
• and whatever else might be important to you...