Hello, ryan. If you want a totally free software speech solution for the shell you can download the flite 1.2 tts engine, eflite 0.38 speech driver, and yasr 0.6.5 which is a fairly good alternative to speakup. However, many people dislike flites voices. If you do not mind paying $50 you can get the dectalk RT tts which is as good as it gets for software speech and use yasr and the emacspeak Dectalk speech driver for a software speech solution. I'm not sure but I think your braille lite is supported by a screen reader called brltty. If so that would give you braille support as well. Hth.
