Linux for the blind?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

We actually had Raman (and his dog), the person who wrote Emacspeak at one 
of our BLU meetings before he left Digital for Adobe. One of my military 
buddies uses a blind man as his computer GURU. I'll send him a note and 
I'll get some response.
John Abreau wrote:

> > I had someone who is blind ask me about speech synthesis and screen 
> > readers etc for Linix for blind people.  Of course I will scour the web 
> > and do my own research, but I was wondering if anyone had experience with 
> > any packages for this, or could suggest resources.
> > 
> > My preliminary research turned up a lot of dead projects.  That's why I'm 
> > asking.  Thanks.
> 
> Emacspeak comes to mind; lat time I looked into it, Emacspeak was 
> considered
> the best Unix environment for visually-impaired computing. At the time
> it required DECtalk to generate the spoken voice, but I believe recent 
> versions of it now use the Festival voice synthesizer suite.
> 
> 
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