The Speaqualizer uses the SSI-263 chip, so it sounds more or less like a Sounding Board, Speakout, Artic or BNS. It's an ISA device. As long as text is written to the video RAM address set by its jumpers, it can read it, navigate by words, chars, lines, etc. with its external keypad. It hasn't been manufactured for probably 8 years. At 10:28 AM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote: >Will they work in linux too, how do they sound? Are they still made? Is it >pci or isa, the one thing is, they're still making isa synthesizers when >isa slots are a specialty item, heard of tripple talk as a pci synth, but >don't think it works in linux yet. >At 09:04 AM 10/18/01 -0400, you wrote: >>A Speaqualizer, designed by the National Federation of the Blind and then >>manufactured by the American Printing House for the Blind several years >>ago, would also work in these situations. >> Braille is the solution to the digital divide. Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <lras@loc.gov> <http://www.loc.gov/nls> HOME: <lras@sprynet.com> <http://lras.home.sprynet.com>