>>>>> "K" == Krekan <krekan at netkosice.sk> writes: K> Hi everyone, I have read about possibility to have talking Linux K> and I am interested of what equipment should I have (syntesizer) K> to run it. I use talking software for Windows now (wintalker) and K> I 'd like to start with linux. I used linux from shell before but K> I want to have my own linux on my home system. Why do I have to K> have syntesizer when I have soundcard? On Windows when i use K> wintalker I don't have to use any syntesizer. Thanx for response Hello, you can use the Festival speech synthesiser, that's a software synthesiser for several languages, Czech for example. For this you need speech-up and speech dispatcher which provide support for speakup. More information you can find on http://www.freebsoft.org. Best regards -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 224921679 Mob: (00420) 608023021