ZDNet UK: Speaking Linux released Mar 27, 2000, 16 :50 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2613 reads) (Other stories by Will Knight)
"A speaking version of Linux, designed to give the visually
impaired an experience of open source computing, has been
launched by software firms Slackware and Speakup."
"The talking distribution called ZipSpeak, is developed from
version 7.0 of Zip Slack, a simplified rendering of Slackware
Linux. The distribution is able to talk to its user using
text-to-speech application called Speakup developed
specifically to work on Linux."