Emacspeak: my reaction is to say yes and it is one of my objectives to get up and running. I'm still not the best opinion though as I'm still struggling with basics like mail. My train of thought is - it wouldn't involve a kernal patch or that level of rebuild to the computer, so should be regarded as more acceptable by the employer. Opinions differ how easy or difficult it is to set up and get working, I'm yet to find out for myself. I remain enthusiastic and keen though. A software synth/speech through the sound card is the economic option again if you or the employer has no means of getting the external devices paid for. This introduces a third element to install and get working and as such, add to the scope for complexity though. Festival doesn't seem to be mentioned here very often yet, but is now the default software speech engine since the IBM ViaVoice product is not readily supported much any nore. This point has been raised quite a lot recently. GA! _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list