Hi Amanda: You want to get the speak freely software for either Linux or Windows. The Windows software you can get from www.speakfree.org. The Linux software you can check out of cvs and compile from: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS login password is 'plese' cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS co speak_freely Watch out for the case of /CVS above. You should then be able to just cd into the speak_freely directory and type: make make install (as root) Good luck Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061