Hi On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Vic Beckley wrote: > What is Speech-up? speechd-up is an interface program between speakup and the speech dispatcher project. Speech dispatcher is a common framework for communicating with various synthesizers. > Does it make Speakup work with software speech? Yes, this is the primary purpose behind it. Speech dispatcher works with various software synthesizers and, with speechd-up interfacing to it, so does speakup. It works quite reliably, too. > Does it work with Flite? Yes, in fact, you need flite whether you intend to use it or not, since speech dispatcher needs it. Flite is the default synthesizer. > Where can I download it? http://www.freebsoft.org/ See the web site for download URLs and instructions on obtaining the required programs.