I normally use eflite (http://eflite.sf.net) with yasr when I want software speech. It is an Emacspeak server, and yasr has support for Emacspeak servers. I have used it with ViaVoice before, but it is unstable, and yasr does not currently provide a good way for the speech synthesizer to be restarted, as Emacspeak does. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Does this screen reader need a hardware sinthesizer, or it can work with IBM > Via Voice? > > Thanks. >