OK, I'm not Kirk, but I thought I'd try to answer these questions anyway. Socrates is an open-source optical character recognition program for Linux. Awesome is a project to create an accessible, open-source sound editing program for Linux. Kirk is also working on an open-source talking book player for the DAISY format, which uses MP3 for the audio and also uses XML for some stuff (Kirk will have to fill us in on the details there). Tuxtalk has been available on a CVS server since sometime in June of this year. It does work but has a couple of bugs and doesn't sound that great yet. It has come a long way, though. export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous at bumpy.braille.uwo.ca:/usr/src/CVS" cvs login For the password type: please Then to check out Tuxtalk, type: cvs checkout tuxtalk You can type "make" in the tuxtalk directory to compile the program, which is called "say". The Documents directory contains some documentation and a text file that illustrates the use of the Tuxtalk commands. Have fun. -- Matt Campbell Web site: http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/ ICQ #: 33005941
