But if there no drivers, or it is not written into the VoiceOver program, or the OS, then I guess the point of the interface is mute. I am still uncomfortable with relying on software speech alone. Glenn The only external synth options would have to be via USB. Since the NewWorld macs started shipping in 1999, the serial ports were dropped entirely, in favour of FireWire and USB. - -- Luke Get my public GPG key here: http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCc5p9jVefwtBjIM4RAkjbAKCZrXGWqpPgclflHi7ngDmAgn0d5gCfTd9M eh0oL/c6e62VV+6dwvGd+x4= =UyiG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup