Hi Tommy: Well, I reckon it would be great to aim to ultimately get them all talking out of the box. Ultimately however, it will probably require the eventual co-operation of the people involved in maintaining the various distributions in order to get it fully supported (including it being available from CD installs, etc). I know that interest has been shown by people working on the debian project to have speakup included so perhaps that's a good starting point. Then again, I think Kirk and Gene have it well in hand. Geoff.