Hi, Well I've decided to give eSpeak and speakup a go, so could someone please send the file they mentioned? Also, I had a problem getting eSpeak to run. I downloaded the binary, installed portaudio v19 and i still get an error about libportaudio.so.0. I noticed, however, that the lib version of portaudio's changed. Should I downgrade portaudio to v18, or will simply recompiling from source help? Also, do I need the latest speech-dispatcher and speechd-up? I currently have dispatcher 0.5 and speechd-up 0.1. tia, Arthur. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com