[coLinux-users] Can I Add Speech?

[Hart L. <ch...@hu...>]

Well, finally have a working Debian instalation on a Vista laptop.  However, 
since I am totally blind, I really need speech on the Linux side.  Yes, I have 
both JAWS and NVDA talking on the windows side, but they will not seemingly 
provide any speech in Linux.
Supposedly Speakup is in staging, also YASR is in the repo.
Sure I could run a livecd such as GRML, which has some speech options, but 
having a Linux machine where I can jump over to the windows side.
There was also an Oralux livecd which had many speech options.
In running searches, all I could find were 2004-and-2005 postings about a lack 
of sound support.
So can some1 please mention if there are easy ways to get speech in CoLinux? 
Thanks so much in advance
Hart