If you're referring to the kernel suggestion, yes, do the same on both machines. Regarding the lite talk, you might want to look at the additional speech servers for Emacspeak. I think the latest one is "emacspeak-ss0.7". It's available in a source 'rpm', but I recommend the "tar.gz". The "rpm" has never worked right for me. Anyway, Assuming you've put the speech servers into the correct place, set the environment variable "DTK_PROGRAM" to "doubletalk", and set "DTK_PORT" to the port on which your synth is connected, if it's somewhere other than the first serial port. Jim Vanzandt, the author of the servers, has written a pretty good 'README' for these. A final note: Before any of this will work, make sure the packages "tcl" and "tcls" are installed. -Dave