Yasr is a screen reader for Unix that runs a subshell. If you want it to run automatically at startup, you would but it in your .bash_login file. Take a look at http://yasr.sourceforge.net for more information. This site also has links to flite,a software speech synthesizer used with YASR, and eflite, which is the interface that connects to the synthesizer. Lorenzo Look, I'm about to buy me a double barreled sawed off shotgun and show Linus what I think about backspace and delete not working. -- some anonymous .signature Jason Holden staggered into view and mumbled: > YASR, Flite?? Can you explain what these programs are I personaly havn't > heard of them. Maybe you have a webpage reference I can look at?