Hi Ken: Work has already begun to hack Rsynth into a fully controlable and decent quality speech synth. This project goes under the name tuxtalk. IIRC, the synth now recognises the doubletalk command set. No work has begun on the actual speech quality yet, which certainly needs it. Tuxtalk is available from the linux-speakup.org CVS repository, for anyone who wants to play with it. Geoff.