I have just finished modifying Speakup so that multiple synthesizer drivers can be included in the kernel, and you can choose which synthesizer you want (or no synth at all) as a boot parameter. You can set the default synthesizer in the kernel configuration and then override the default with the speakup_synth parameter at boot time. A synthesizer choice of "none" results in no speech (an especially useful default for kernels that will be used by sighted people as well as blind people). This modification will enable Linux distribution makers to include Speakup in their distributions with little or no difficulty. -- Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/> ICQ #: 33005941
