Actually I don't think it would be to difficult. I suspect the hardest part would be getting around the graphical user interface they use on most of them. A friend has offerred to purchase one for me if I'd port speakup to it but I haven't really had the time to do the back ground research to find a suitable unit. if anyone has suggestions with details and prices I will look into it. I am not sure the trade off between needing to use a high end linux cell phone/pda will work out any less expensive than buying one of the subsidized phones with talx or mobile speak. I don't think one would need to use speech dispatcher if memory would be an issue. A small stub program could act as a go between from say speakup to espeak. You could probably even modify espeak to open speakups softsynth device directly and bypass using a stub program completely. I have to admit it is an interesting challenge, even considering I hate telephones. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
