Hi John and all. I really honestly use the speech in brltty very little. I think the main difference would be that you mostly get speech in brltty when you ask for it, i.e.: specifically request a line or part of the screen to be read. when speakup is on, unless you turn it off or press a key to continue typing, you hear everything. this is an advantage if you are reading a long file, but actually can slow you down in the regular course of things, as the operation is long done by the time the speech stops. but of course you can stop the speech or use the control key to catch up the speech to the command. Usually if i want speech and braille, I run both brltty and speakup or emacspeak, since I do have two serial ports and a doubletalk lt as well as the braillelite. In all fairness, I have to say that i'm not a good person to ask about the speech functioning of brltty, since i just don't use it. In fact, I really use braille rather than speech 99.9 percent of the time. as far as linux is concerned, if you took away my doubletalk and speakup/emacspeak/yasr (all speech programs), my linux life would go on pretty much as usual. If you took away my braille capability, I would be much more frustrated. However, I realize that this is only how things are for me; braille is more expensive for one thing, and some people love speech as much as I do braille. It's a very individual thing, and i'm not saying that braille is better, just that having used both I personally thrive on braille use. This is why I would be a poor judge of the speech capability unless i deliberately forced myself to use and test it. Cheryl _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list