I forwarded your forwarded message to a friend of mine who is using another PC as a dumb terminal to a Linux box. He is blind, but the only synthesizer he possesses is an Echo GP believe it or not. I am trying to interest him in Speakup because he is an extremely talented C programmer. If I can just talk him into buying a Doubletalk LT perhaps I will succeed. Now we'll both have to bring ourselves up to speed on the arcana of kernel and driver programming. Jim WB0TFK