Hi: For me, a major factor in hardware speech is the cost. It seems to me that a killing could be made by making a hardware linux-based speech synth, especially if it sounded real good. Imagine festival in a box. Seriously though, most speech hardware has been around for awhile and it's not getting any cheaper. Software speech came along at a good time and stole the market. A good, cheap, hardware device would definitely find a place IMHO. Geoff.
