Ted: Your GUI accessibility is coming. An adaptor for the Gnome desktop is in the works, with a preliminary version already available. No, I haven't yet tried it. I suggest you wait; it's far from a release candidate. In the meantime, look at the screen reader YASR, and the Flite software synthesis engine. -Dave Octavian Rasnita writes: > Unfortunately, I found that emacspeak is the only solution for the moment. > I hope that Linux will follow the Windows way, and there will be a better > support for software sinthesizers than for hardware ones, and that it will > appear a graphical interface accessible for the blind.