Hello all, Just joined the list and thought I's say "hello" to everyone. Really nice to find a place like this. I'm a rabid Linux fanatic who went blind from diabetic retinopathy in August of '02, and I've been pretty much offline ever since. Finally broke down and upgraded my system to support WinXP and quickly heard about SpeakUp for Linux. I'm in the process of looking for a supported speech synth for SpeakUp, so I'm still stuck in Windows on a 30 minute Win-Eyes time limit. I hope to soon get Slackware up and running, and soon be able to contribute to the SpeakUp effort right along-side everyone. I'm presently playing around with a copy of Oralux and learning the features. Just need that speech synthesizer, and I should be off and running. Thank you for all your efforts. It is well appreciated. Best regards, Michael "Foreign White Devil" Ferranti