speech output

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

I have heard the odd anecdote about people using Speakup with an USB to 
serial converter but I've never heard any details.

As previously mentioned, Speakup can use software speech.  This requires 
the speech Dispatcher package and Speechd-up to connect the two together.

If you want software speech during install though, the only two options I 
know of are Oralux and Ubuntu.

Geoff.