Lorenzo T. indicated on the gnome accessibility mailing list that he managed to get eSpeak working in LSR via Speech Dispatcher. Here's a link to his post.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00038.html Pete -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility