Speakup Modified Red Hat 9?

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, Darrell.
It is vary unlikely that Red Hat will resume speakup support in the next
update to Red Hat when you take in account what happened with 8.0, and the
reasons they dropped speakup in the first place.
My take on it is Red Hat is looking at other accessibility options such as
gnopernicus which may ship as early as this fall/winter on the next releases
of Red Hat and with the Gnome 2.4 desktop.
Unlike speakup gnopernicus has full support for software speech, and will
apeal to MS Windows users which just can't adapt to a commandline like you
and I can.