[Some of you may have seen this already, but please note the new url.] I have been developing an Emacspeak server for the Festival Lite tts synthesizer. It is implemented as a C application that links against the Festival Lite libraries. It is multi-threaded, creating a thread to handle requests to synthesize text and another thread to play the synthesized text. It uses Festival Lite's interface for playing sound, so it theoretically supports ALSA natively, although I have not tested it with ALSA. (I seem to remember having trouble getting FLite to compile with the latest ALSA driver.) It should also support the Ipaq, since Festival Lite reportedly does. Anyway, the server can be downloaded from http://eflite.sf.net. Let me know if any of you try it and how things go. I have been using it successfully on my notebook, albeit with yasr. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --