Hello everyone, I once had a very nice Slackware installation with Speakup set up on my old computer, which used an internal doubletalk synthesizer. well, this computer has now gone to the great junkyard in the sky, computer heaven, wherever. LOL! I am now using a newer machine, but without the benefit of being able to use my internal speech card since they don't make ISA slots in computers anymore. I'd like to have some Linux on this machine, but have never even begun to play with it and any type of software speech setup. So, what I'm looking for is advice on which distribution works best (or at all) with software speech, and is installation by a totally blind person possible? Or, now that I have no hardware speech, and will not be getting any, am I just completely out of luck in the Linux department? Thanks much. ~Ann --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0603-0, 01/15/2006 Tested on: 1/15/2006 4:54:40 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com