<<suggest is that you buy the $50 dectalk runtime for linux -- that will work with emacspeak and you can have both at once.>> I approve of this and have considered it often enough and will more when wallet permits. I've read criticisms though even then that it lacks the level of control you have with real hw synths like the Apollo I have. Not being able to interrupt and shut-up output would annoy me. Would this level of use of the sound card get in the way of using the sound for sound's sake.... like the jukebox facility I've been doing these past few weeks. It's taking this long to load it with all the CD's I have here. I have another spare box though, so might keep jukebox as just that and start again with a Slackware work machine. GA!
