Hello, I have posted the initial work I have done on some slackware packages (include dotconf (required by speech-dispatcher), speech-dispatcher, espeak, portaudio (required by espeak if you wish to use it as a stand-alone synth) and speechd-up). There is also some information about how to use these to get speakup to use software speech with these packages. SlackBuild scripts will be released soon, but I just need to make them into suitable distributable packages (eg. give some notes on what it is, and usage details). Comments would be welcome. Here is the tempory website, I plan to move it to sourceforge soon, so if you have interest please listen out for further progress announcements. Anyway current website is www.mwhapples.plus.com For those who may wish to use gnome, then I suggest gnome-slacky (www.slacky.eu) or for those who don't speak Italian (http://www.slacky.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2475). Even if you don't want gnome, there are some useful packages in their repositories. From Michael Whapples
