Speakup

• http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html

allows a blind user to hear all output directed to the console. Currently, the following synthesizers are supported by speakup:

• Accent PC/SA
• the Apollo2
• Artic Transport
• Audapter
• Braille 'N Speak / Type 'N Speak
• Dectalk External and Express
• the Dectalk PC internal as a module.
• DoubleTalk PC/LT
• LiteTalk
• the Keynote Gold PC internal.
• Speakout
• Speakup softsynth device
• Espeakup/espeak software synth as stand alone user space programs.
• The speech Dispatcher daemon which currently supports Festival, Flite, Apolo II and the DECTalk software speech engine.

Speakup allows you to interact with applications and the GNU/Linux operating system with audible feedback from the console using a synthetic speech device.