If that Sharp device, for instance, has enough memory, I'd consider putting emacs, emacspeak, and friends on it. My software synth would be flite, with the eflite server. I'd want to use wither the stock voice, or the KAL16 voice. The Theta voices are too big. -Dave Lorenzo> This would definitely work, if it has enough memory to Lorenzo> run flite and yasr. It would be a much better choice Lorenzo> than the notetakers whose prices are jacked up to about Lorenzo> ten times or more what they are worth simply because they Lorenzo> have the word blind on their boxes.