Um, look, if you want the benefits of a hardware synth then you need a hardware synth. During a boot you can't really run any other software simply because the partitions haven't been loaded and you don't even have a writable root partition mounted at that point. This is one of the reasons I built speech into the kernel so you can manipulate your system by yourself. If you have to depend on other software to do that then you cannot manipulate your system by yourself. At this point in time there are no software synths which will either fit into the kernel or operate in the kernel because of floating point restrictions. If someone wants to write one we will all be grateful. Until then buy a hardware synth if you need it early. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
