You definitely need a hardware synthesizer if you wish to use speakup. Who ever told you must have thought you could use speakup with software synths. You can get slackware from www.slackware.com and it comes with speakup patched in several of its kernels. Again though, you need a hardware synthesizer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Montemayor, Kateri" <KMontemayor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:13 PM Subject: RE: Installing Linux with Speakup > No I was told that we didnt need synths. Can I get slackware off of > linux-speakup.org?