Hi their. I'm not certain of when FC3 is going to be released. However, the answer to your second question is yes. You can use Speakup with software speech. You will have to either have softsynth support compiled in your kernel or loaded as a module. Next, you need Flite. You can either build it from source, or there are RPM binary distrobutions of it available. You also need Speech Dispatcher. Not sure if their are RPM's available yet. Perhaps someone else knows that. Lastly, you need speechd-up available. This is just a list of what you need. As I don't use software speech, I can't help you with configuring it. Hope this helps though. -- Erik Heil <eheil at va3duk.serveftp.com> Phone: (865) 673-0542