Speakup will work with certain software synthesizers -- however the advantage of using hardware is that you get all the messages from bootup which you cannot do with any other operating system. Best way is to have some hardware to start and then configure a software synthesizer. on Saturday 10/01/2005 Krekan(krekan at netkosice.sk) wrote > Hi everyone, I have read about possibility to have talking Linux and I am interested of what equipment should I have (syntesizer) to run it. I use talking software for Windows now (wintalker) and I 'd like to start with linux. > I used linux from shell before but I want to have my own linux on my home system. Why do I have to have syntesizer when I have soundcard? On Windows when i use wintalker I don't have to use any syntesizer. > Thanx for response > Krekan > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com