I have been working on a speech server to interface with Festival Lite. It is intended to be compatible with Emacspeak, although I have mainly been testing it with yasr and have only done rudimentary testing with Emacspeak. It should also integrate with BRASS without too much trouble, although I do not use BRASS and have not tried to build it in shared library form. It uses Festival Lite's code for interfacing with the sound driver, so it should support both OSS and ALSA drivers, although I have only tested it with OSS drivers so far (it seemed to have trouble compiling the last time I played with ALSA -- I believe the ALSA API has been changing). I have used the server successfully to get work done on my notebook, in any case, and have put it up at http://mgorse.home.dhs.org/eflite/ for anyone who might want to download and test it. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --