eflite is a speech server for Emacspeak and other screen readers that allow them to interface with Flite. NOTE: If you are using flite and eflite to interface with emacspeak, then you will also have to set some environment variables: As user: echo 'DTK_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/eflite; export DTK_PROGRAM' \ >> ~/.bash_profile For a completely vision-free system, you may add these steps: As root: echo 'exec flite -t "please log in"' >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local As user: echo 'exec /usr/bin/emacspeak' >> ~/.bash_profile