You can get a Doubletalk internal ISA card, or a Doubletalk LT or Litetalk serial port speech synth for around $300 U.S. Someday, Speakup will work with software speech, but meanwhile, try a Doubletalk. Sunfire writes: > From: "Sunfire" <rusty_81 at msn.com> > > any plans that anybody knows of to try and make speakup work with normal > sound cards?? it is very expensive to buy speech cards or synths around here > the cheapest i can even find is like $700 and thats not easy cash to come > by... anyways....