Ubuntu versus Oralux and other questions

[Cleverson]

Hello all

I am blind and live in Brazil. I started to get envolved with Linux 
about one year ago.

I have made some contributions to Oralux project, especially translating 
documents to Brazilian Portuguese language. Currently, I have Oralux 
installed on my hard drive, though I haven't migrated my complete 
desktop yet.

I would like to know about some differences between Oralux and the 
recently-released Ubuntu 6.10. To be more specific, my questions for the 
moment are as follows:

1. Is it true that Orca screen reader is able to read console 
applications, such as Speakup or yasr would? If not, does ubuntu already 
contain a console screen reader such as Speakup included in the live CD 
and properly set?

2. Is it already possible to get eSpeak synthesiser to work with some 
screen reader, whether Orca, Speakup, Emacspeak, or another one? This is 
important because one of my difficulties to migrate to Linux is the lack 
of Brazilian Portuguese voices (currently there's only one 
MBROLA-based), and I'm contributing with a new Portuguese voice for 
eSpeak.

That's it for the moment. I hope to contribute in some way with 
accessibility on Ubuntu.

Many thanks,
Cleverson