On Wed, 16 May 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > 1: aAs far as I'm aware, software synthesys ties up a great deal of system > resources including the sound card unless of course you run a sb-live. Or some other poliphonic soundcard. Or if you run ESD. > 2: Remember that if you do go down the path of software synthesys, you > won't have speech right from the get go when you first turn your machine > on. AFAIK, no-one has that. Speakup provides speech from when the kernel loads. Geoff.