Hi Phil, If you need help with the Elba please write or call Sighted and ask for me. They will give you the contact info or leave yours and I'll call you back. In order to get you started though. If you will go to file manager and highlight the file quickref.html and then type an A for associate, this will bring up a quick reference file in the browser that should answer most of your questions. You can also download the manual from http://www.sighted.com. The speech does allow you to read by character and word, However, the speech isn't complete. We will have a new firmware within the next week or two that will add read to end and key echo as well as the day planner application. -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of philwh@gate.net Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:05 PM To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: playing with elba Hi. I have in my hands (at least for a few days) an elba. A very interesting device. Unfortunately, I didn't get a manual, so I am doing trial and error to find out the key strokes. It is a unit with a braille keyboard. I really like the case and how the unit was designed. The speech is ok most of the time. It does however, have some problems at times. I will start to sound like an am radio slightly out of tune, or for the hams, like single side band, not tuned correctly. The speech isn't available in all applications. I haven't found any way to read word by word or character by character. or even to have it repeat the current line. the braille display is really nice, and I like the movement bar ont he front of the unit. It runs linux 2.4.9 as its kernel. more later if anyone is interested. phil _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list