Shaun expressed my own feelings also. If I were using a laptop I would really appreciate anything that simplified the clutter. But given a choice, I would prefer the HW solution. Chuck On Thu, 17 May 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > janina. > You make a valid point. In the case of people using laptops, software > synthesys would be an excellent idea. > I'm just not convinced that' it's a good idea myself. I know I seemed a > bit ters but it appears from where I sit that a good deal of debate has > taken place with regards to software speech.. > But I'll conceed that in the case where there's no space to spread speech > synthesiser, laptop and what all else, it has it's benifits. My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (31% of Full)