Android for blind users?

Today I saw a post concerning about the seeing impaired people who could use android for the best, if only there was some sort of screen reader software running on Android. Something was said about not being able to implement that because of certain security reasons, but that probably referred to independent software reading what would be on the screen, next to that, the poster indicated that there was no speech synthesizer for Java (yet), which clearly pointed out that he was thinking of an independent program reading the content of another program.

I replied to that, and suggested festival – a text to speech framework, and that if there is some modification done to it, it would most likely be “androidified”. However, it’s high likely that software will be required to support it (The api), or another approach is to be taken (Kernel-height, which I think will prove quite difficult)

The discussion is found at google groups, more specific here.