Hi: You're going to hit the same problems you hit before with this. No ability to shut the thing up and so-forth. The only way you can use another computer as a speech synthesiser is to run a program on that computer that makes it emulate a known speech synthesiser and passes the speech data on to the actual synth in the way that that particular synth requires. Even though I use this sort of setup, I would say that organising such a synth emulator would be a lot of effort for little gain. Most people in your situation would, I dare say, just make do with a terminal package on the other PC rather than try and do what you're trying to do. I had to do this for about 10 months before I could use speakup, so I know it can be done. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701
