I personally use YASR with flite on my laptop, although if you can get the Festival modifications to work it would probably be even better. Unless you absolutely need to have speakup enabled immediately from boot and running all the way untill shutdown, a software sollution is probably better for a laptop. Lorenzo How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it. -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting Jason Holden staggered into view and mumbled: > I am wondering what everyone here recomends for a speach setup on a laptop. Would you recomend the double talk lt, or is there a usb one that does work with speakup sutch as triple talk? Any informaiton on this would be apriciated. I have to purchase a laptop for school and I will be running linux on it so I am just needing suggestions .