Jan Buchal writes: > >>>>> "JS" == Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> writes: > > JS> 2.) Once you have Linux with Speakup installed, you can use > JS> hardware or software speech. You can change synths every hour if > JS> you want. > Yes, maybe is important that HW synthesiser cost about 1 thousand > dollars. You can spend that much if you want. But, you can also get hardware speech synths for much much less. The one I am using right now cost me $150 USSd , and it was purchased new. Other synths can be had for around $300 USD new. Or you can look on places like Ebay. A few weeks ago someone on this list was giving away hardware speech synthesizers. This is not as burdensome as you claim.