Hi, Scott. Don't feel so bad. As a developer I know that writing drivers isn't something you pick up over night. The way you would write a kernel driver for Linux is different for you would write one for libgnome-speech. Either way I don't know of any developer that hasn't done some research before sitting down to write a driver. If I were to write say the doubletalk drivers I'd need to glance at the gnome-speech api before even working on a driver of my own.
