Hi, I have speakup and emacspeak both available on this computer, and am glad of that. I'm using Emacspeak, now, with the sound card acting as my synthesizer. One cannot do this, yet, with speakup. While setting the Linux side of this machine up, I didn't have the sound card working under Linux for quite a while. It was only with the help of Speakup and this list that I was able to fix this. If you can have both, do it! -Dave Anna Schneider writes: > And this is in response to Evonne. > > Speak Up and Emacs Speak. Right now I'm going to try bot. Maybe I'll > like one better than the other, though the whole synthesizer thing sounds > messy. I'll have to think about that. Can either program run with the > sound card only? And I'll go do reading on Emacs where you suggested.