As far as I know there is nothing you can do with your current set-up. Using a usb to serial converter won't work because speakup talks directly to the serial hardware rather than going through other system calls. Because of that the usb converter cannot provide hardware ports in the same range as the standard serial uarts so speakup cannot talk through the converter. Your options are to either use a computer with standard serial ports or use a softsynth device with one of the available software synthesizers. This softsynth approach is not a simple solution for the newbie particularly with the knoppix disk. You could use the grml disk and get it running fairly straight forward. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
