*****SPAM***** My apology

[Geoff Shang]

Hi Kevin:

I think you are confusing ALSA with Speakup or some other screen reader.
ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (http://www.alsa-project.org) is a
set of soundcard drivers, an interface library to those drivers, and a set
of utilities to manipulate those drivers and provide other related
functionality.

As for what Speakup or any other screen reader for Linux will allow you to
do, I dare say you're preeching to the converted.

Geoff.