No, You need a hardware synth. Because software speech in speakup requires speech-dispatcher and speechd-up, you need an installed system to use it. Speech-dispatcher is a Debian package, but you will need to build speechd-up from CVS source. Kenny On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 03:10:59PM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > Is it possible to boot the Speakup modified Debian Sarge installer with softsynth > support? I tried to boot using > > speakup speakup_synth=softsynth > > but the kernel hangs right after it is uncompressed and gives no error message. > It says it is booting the kernel, but nothing ever happens. > > Thanks, > Lorenzo > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup