I and others have some fairly massive speakup updates coming in the next week or so, so will not currently be including any of the software synth stuff in the official speakup tree. Once I have the new rewrites in and settled will try to figure out how to include the software synth modifications. We have two sets of mods to consider though, those of Owen and those of Mattio. I may take what they've done and rewrite it as well but for now I have not looked to carefully at either one and so will reserve judgement on the best action plan. I am grateful to both groups for their work to date though. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061