Odd Notes on Software For the Blind or Partially Sighted

From: Alan W Black <awb_ERASE@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
I distribute a free (for non-commercial use) speech synthesizer
for FreeBSD (and most Unix machines) 
   http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html Our system simply
requires a standard sound card (8 bit or 16 bit).  The synthesis is
all in software, but he'll need more than just a synthesizer, he'll
need the front end too.  I suggest you look at the Linux Blind User
Group who are one on my mirror sites.  That seems to be the best place
to start
   http://leb.net/blinux/
As I'm sure you know the code for Linux and FreeBSD is pretty similar.
Alan W Black                            email: awb_ERASE@cstr.ed.ac.uk
Centre for Speech Technology Research   http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/~awb
University of Edinburgh                 tel:   (44) 131 650 2787
80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK          fax:   (44) 131 650 6351

ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux/ & http://leb.net/blinux/

FreeBSD ports/audio/rsynth is a text->speech synthesizer.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html

Maybe window(1) or GNU screen to communicate with speech synthesis

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.answers
Subject: Linux Access HOWTO (part 1/1)
From: Jim Van Zandt <jrv_ERASE@vanzandt.mv.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.answers
Subject: Linux Emacspeak HOWTO (part 1/1)
  This document describes how a blind user can use Linux with a speech
  synthesizer to replace the video display.

REDTHUNDER <Rthunder_ERASE@cris.com>
I am the totally blind system administrator
who was trying to install freebsd from a remote serial terminal.
[conclusion: can't. jkh made it graphical, didnt occur to him not to]