Hi, As fas as I can tell, eSpeak is one of the speech synthesizers used in GNOME [1] by the Orca screen reader [2], so I understand it could be a good solution for this too. The other speech synthesizer I heard of is Festival[3], which can be also selected from Orca through speech-dispatcher (I believe espeak and festival work as "backends" to s-d), and which I believe it's the one used in Spain by Junta de Andalucia in a massive installation of their Guadalinex [4] distribution (and with great results so far, afaik). In any case, you'd probably be better of asking in gnome-accessibility-list mailing list (or even gnome-accessibility-devel) for better feedback about this topic, as they should be able to tell you in more detail the pros and cons of each system, and maybe some other one I might be missing right now. My 2 cents, Mario [1] http://www.gnome.org [2] http://live.gnome.org/Orca [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System [4] http://www.guadalinex.org/