Hello and welcome Jonathan: It is a refreshing addition to the available software synthesis programs of today. If you are interested in extending it's capabilities to some degree, inline control parametres for the common adjustable settings would be nice. Being able to modify speed, pitch, intonation and the like is very useful for producing features such as pitch change on capital letters for example. The doubletalk hardware synthesizer from RC Systems has a nice and concise command language set you may want to look at as an example. You can find documentation for various synths at ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/synths-documentation. It isn't important to support the entire command set but the basic commands would make (e)speak more flexible for the blind computer user. A very nice job on your synth in my opinion! Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
