"Kevin Doucet" writes: > What is your favorite installation method and which synth do you use? Anything that will give me feedback on what is happening. Up to now, I have used a P.C. running MSDOS and a screen reader I wrote in 8086 assembler in the late eighties and early nineties which drives an equally old Echo Speech synthesizer. I then run mskermit for the VT100 terminal emulation which is part of kermit as well as the kermit transfer protocol which is a darn good way to send short files from one system to another if there is no Ethernet connection between them. If you have a DOS screen reader and speech synthesizer and a free serial port, you can certainly use this method. The trouble is that all this stuff is getting very old and RS232 ports are a vanishing breed at least on the main bus. As for the synthesizer, I haven't bought one in several years so there are plenty of people here who can give you more recent information. None of the speech boxes are perfect since English is so fickle. I remember the Echo was in the $100-$200 range so it was a good deal. I don't know if there is anything serious like it today. You will get better speech for more money, but the law of diminishing returns kicks in rather quickly. If the live CD's with speech engines get more dependable, they are a wonderful solution. The developers of these mostly no-cost distributions have an almost impossible job of trying to make a huge variety of hardware cooperate. Now, for the short answer. My favorite method is the one that works. At this time, things are in a state of flux. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list