Correct me if i'm wrong Kirk, but if you echo foo to /proc/speakup/"synth"/direct it will echo whatever you sent. -----Original Message----- From: tyler spivey [mailto:tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:30 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: speakup and sofware speech maybe a sollution ok, i have 4 pcs. one is win/zipspeak with via voice and emacspeak instaled.] i fire up a nixce tcl script, and i can do this from dos: echo synth test >com2 and i hear test. could this be done for speakup with a bit of hacking? just to get something to come out of its speakers? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup