On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > So, under your current circumstances, you will not have speech during > the boot or login process. Once in, however, you can launch Speakup as > follows: Man, that's the real draw-back of modularizing Speakup. For me, the major selling point of Speakup is its capability of speaking earlier in the boot process than any DOS or Windows screen reader. I realize that this gets sacrificed for software speech, but I hope it never goes away as an option in Speakup for those of us fortunate enough to own hardware speech synthesizers.