David, I presently have software speech running on my Slackware 10.0 distro, using version 0.5rc3 of speech-dispatcher, and would be happy to share my setup with you or help in any other way with the howto. It would be a valuable contribution to make such a document available, particularly if it were not specific to any one distro. Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (75% of Full) Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074