Hello, Some people have been saying about software synthesisers on a bootable CD, well it is possible, as oralux (www.oralux.org) shows. This does not use speakup, but it uses YASR and Emacspeak. I don't think there is much space left on the CDs for other apps, so probably will never find its way into the usual distributions, but it may be possible to do it with disks that do installation from the internet, e.g. gentoo. While on the topic of software synthesisers. I am using speakup with speechd_up, and find that the speech seems to become broken up at times. I don't remember it happening when I used slackware, but since I have moved to using gentoo the problem seems to have arisen. I don't know what is actually causing the problem, but it is happening somewhere between speakup outputing and speech dispatcher recieving. This makes me believe it could be speechd_up. Also I am using a kernel I have customised, so it might be something in there. Any suggestions would be useful. From Mike
