Hi Terrence, you need Speech-Dispatcher, speechd-up and a synth of your choice to do this. Ubuntu comes with Festival, which is supported by Speech-dispatcher. You can add supported synts, such as Festival-Lite or Espeak. Install Speech-Dispatcher and Speechd-up, and then check the following files to set SD up: /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/yoursynth.conf that means search in that directory for the file that configures the synth of your choice. It runs without any problems on a less powerful machine; I use a 1 Ghz AMD-Duron with 240 MBs of RAM. Problems with slow processors and not enugh memory start when you use Gnome with Orca. But that's a different story. Hermann
