Samuel Thibault writes: >Just write a driver for it in one of those screen readers... That is probably the best approach. Then, I wouldn't have to get nearly as many things working at once. There are at least two flavors of the Echo external synthesizer. The oldest version which will turn twenty this year but is still going, has a very generous buffer but no indexing which, as I understand it, lets the application know how much speech is left to deliver. The newer version can speak faster at its fastest rate but the pronunciation is not as clear and the buffer not very large. It does have indexing, however. The control command set for both is similar, but for best results, you need to let your application know which Echo you are using. Since I have each type, testing wouldn't be a problem. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list