Fenrir is a young but powerful, modular and flexible console screen reader. It has a lot of functionality:

* spellchecker * advanced review functionality * copy/paste * multiple clipboards * not in kernel space * echo: word, char and deletion * date/ time announcement * script key (add functionality via bash and let fenrir read the output) * window mode * highlight tracking mode * easy to extent, plugin architecture * promoted words (hear a sound if your name is spoken in IRC) * periodic time announcement * everything configurable * per app scripts * emoji replacement :) = smile * user defined dictionary * multiple keyboard layouts * sound icons themes