Interesting. How did this synth interface with the system, did it act as a video card, did it plug into the vga port of an existing video card? Greg > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid at sunset.net >To: igueths at comcast.net,"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:49:08 -0800 >Subject: Re: talking bios? >This project reminds me of the old Speaqualizer (possibly spelled >wrong) speech synthesizer. The Speaqualizer was all hardware, so it >was capable of reading everything that showed up on a text screen, >including all prompts and info which showed up before the OS was >loaded. This new project sounds promising--I hope it goes well. The >project seems to have some serious support, so I think I will keep >up with it as time allows. Thanks, and have a _great_ day!