Hi all, Why don't you try Emacspeak and quit yawping! There *is* a speech output system that uses software speech. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT