-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The standard Debian Sarge CD image unfortunately doesn't include Speakup. I used the image found at: http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/sarge-i386-speakup-20050129.iso to get a talking install. Unfortunately, this image doesn't include software speech support out of the box, as I found out when trying to get a talking install on my laptop which doesn't have a serial port for a hardware synth. If you do happen to have a hardware synth and a place to plug it into your PC, you can build the speechd-up program from source once Debian is installed to ultimately use software speech. The nice thing about Debian is that speechd-up is one of very few programs you will ever need to build from source, unless you just like to compile source code. <grin> I currently only have 3 binaries in /usr/local/bin. And mp3 support is built into Debian, unlike Fedora, which makes you jump through hoops to get it. I hope this helps you at least a little, and please don't give up on Debian. It rocks! Lorenzo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJkMkG9IpekrhBfIRArZkAJwNSyJOzfbNCj6ff8r6u2zSnMrS5ACgqdad VCmsTXTG3UYPbunbOm4AzFs= =+NgQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
