Hi, Jared. If you are looking for a software speech solution your best bet is to pass up speakup, and use a screen reader called yasr with the flite software speech system. A friend of mine is working on rpms for RH 9 for yasr, eflite, and flite, and hopefully in a few days we will have a solution which you can just install the three rpms and have speech up and running. I use yasr on my laptop rather than speakup for the reason it has software speech and it is a good alternative to speakup when you need software speech. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jared <jared-stofflett@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: current status of software speech with speakup > I have a laptop that I want to install redhat Linux, and speakup on. I don't > have a hardware synth, or serial ports, so buying a hardware synth is not an > option. What is the current status of software speech under Linux, I've > scene a web page but it hasn't been updated for a while. Also I know there > are two different versions of software speech, and don't know which one to > chose? Appreciate any info. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup