Hello everyone, Recently, I went through the tickle trunk and discovered I had enough spare parts to build an old 486 DX4/100 out of the odds and ends that were kicking around the office. Hence, my Linux experiment was borne. I looked at Slackware, Redhat, Caldera and Mandrake distributions finally settling on Mandrake because it was the only distribution I had any degree of success in installing. (In part this had to do with the newer releases of Linux being optimized for Pentium installation.) In any event, my next step is speech access on the machine. I have a small LAN here consisting of a DOS 6.22 machine, a Win98 SE machine and, most recently, a Linuxbox. DOS and Windows communicate between each other over a LANtastic network and each machine has a screen reader. Both the DOS and Windows machine can talk to the Linux box via Telnet or FTP. I'd like to get some speech access directly on the Linux box and was just wondering what I would need in terms of hardware before I go any further. I've heard of Emacspeak as well as a few others and was curious as to its hardware requirements. Will it run on a sound card such as the SB16 or would I have to use a dedicated voice synthesizer such as the DoubleTalk? Would it drive an old Provox synthesizer? (Seems I had one of those laying around as well.) If it would be best to drive a dedicated synthesizer, do they sell a type of Y connection so that I may run a single device (the DoubleTalk) off both the DOS and Linux machines? I'm just toying around here to break up the winter a bit but thought this would be as good a time as any to delve in. I've received a great deal of help during the installation from a local chap here in town, most of you probably know Dave Miekle, but I thought I should try to touch base with someone in here who was using speech to guide a Linux-virgin through some of the more difficult steps which probably lay before me now that the machine is finally part of the LAN. Thanks in advance. Jeff