Well, I got speech support to work in the debian brltty package easily enough. I simply went into the /etc/brltty.conf and changed the speech driver from "no" to 'bl". Not at all sure why the config program set it to "no"; it never asked me. Cheryl _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list