This would definitely work, if it has enough memory to run flite and yasr. It would be a much better choice than the notetakers whose prices are jacked up to about ten times or more what they are worth simply because they have the word blind on their boxes. Lorenzo Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you? -- Patrick Volkerding Dave Hunt staggered into view and mumbled: > Isn't there a mainstream note taker by Sharp that has Linux on it? If > yes, what about putting something like YASR on? I guess you would > have to remove the GUI PDA applications. > > This wouldn't give you braille, but you'd have a talking note taker at > a reasonable price, and using off-the-shelf hardware. > > Just A Thought, > > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >