Hi there Eric and anyone else following this thread including the gentleman who asked about it, the braille lite m 20 I believe emmulates a Double-Talk in the same way that the other Millenium series notetakers from Freedom Sciencefiction do. So, the speakup key word synth designation when doing the install of your distro at the beginning to make it talk with notetaker in speech box mode would be: text speakup_synth=ltlk Of course if it's not detected you may have to pass other parameters on the command line however my attitude regarding this is something like, I won't complicate your life with that stuff at the moment, remember that however if you do need help feel free to write to me direct and or to the complete speakup list. Hth and good luck! Ed Barnes Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada home phone +1-709-596-3165 e-mail and msn messenger id ebarnes at enigma2.cjb.net ******** "There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words 'innovative' and 'successful.' Microsoft products are successful -- they make a lot of money -- but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good." -ROBERT X. CRINGELY ******** On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi. > Does the M20 emulate a Litetalk synth? This is what you have to know. if so, you can use Speakup to provide access to the console, which is a screen review package that is installed as a bunch of kernel patches gotten via anonymous CVS or FTP. If it does, then you're all set. I don't have any specifications as far as what the Hardware specs on the synth are, so I'm sorry that I can't be more helpful in this regard. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ryan Mcmanomy > To: linux > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:56 PM > Subject: Hello > > > > > Hello I am very new at linux in fact I do not have linux yet that is what I hope you can help me with. > > I want to run linux as a dual boot with windows 2000. > > If I need a external synthesizer all I have is a bltm20. > > so what speech program for linux will work with the bltm20? > > Thanks for any help!! > >