<<Yes, but I'm not willing to buy a juno. >> That's fair! Pity Speakup couldn't use a Keynote Gold or that PCMCIA device which is ideal for laptops. Software speech is only good at or beyond login. The greatest benefit of Speakup is that it works from the boot prompt to Power-down and has been a great saviour for this alone. I'm still using 1.0 too. How much more does a newer version do? GA!