I installed oralux with speakup and the software speech on a laptop in August and it works great for the most part. I recently tried a very low-cost USB-based RS232 port converter because the laptop does not have one and I want to be able to use it on servers which is part of my job. For the first time, I hit a real performance issue. When using ssh, the speech works perfectly but when using the USB converter, every incoming character must preempt the speech engine because the system goes in to that same painfully slow spelling routine that one gets with speakup on GRML with software speech. What I actually had going at the time was c-kermit's terminal emulator so that might make a difference. Fortunately, I didn't buy the RS-232 converter. It is just one we had at work so I am not out any money. I still need to figure out something because that spelling mode could turn someone in to an old man before his time. The system recognized the device as a RS-232 converter and it technically worked in that one could periodically read the screen in speakup and get good output, but you sure can't listen as it comes in. Any suggestions? Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list