On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > With the high demand for software synthesis, I am greatly > concerned that we will lose this feature when Speakup has to wait for > sound card initialization before it can talk. It is true that speakup will have to wait for soundcard initialisation before it can use software speech, but this will not affect the current situation. You will still be able to compile hardware synth drivers into the kernel and get speech from kernel load. Geoff.