Well there are currently two ways to get Speakup to work with Festival, both of which theoretically can be generalized to work with any software synth. For details on the one I and my partenors made and for a link to the other project see http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux HtH Owen On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Can Festival or ViaVoice TTS be used as the synth > for speakup, using the internal sound card rather > than an external synthesizer? If so, how would > one set things up that way? > > TIA, > Doug >