Russian screen readers

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Since I happen to be blind, I use a screen reader to convert the text on my computer screen to speech. Though I've been monitoring this community for awhile, it's been frustrating because my screen reader can't read the Russian, so I hear something like: "How do you translate dash, dash, dash . . . "

Does anyone know of any technology that could help me? I know that JAWS, the most popular screen reader and the one that I now use, does have a Russian version, but the company told my hussband that the Russians won't let it be sold here because of copyright issues. I realize that in the foreseeable future there's little hope of finding something that can easily switch between Russian and English, to read, for instance, most of the posts in this community. But if I could find a screenreader that can read Cyrillic, then I can read Russian communities on LJ and establish some friendships with Russian speakers. I guess to do that I'd have to set up a separate Russian LJ because the Russian screen reader probably wouldn't be able to deal with English.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!