Screader is not built into the kernel. At one point, there were two daemons you had to run: the review daemon, and the 'tts' daemon. In the case of a synthesizer on a serial port, the latter was simply a 'cat >>/dev/ttyS0 '' on my installation. Screader's lack of controls ffor a specific synthesizer and its strange reading behavior turned me off, so, I haven't been following its development. -- Dave --