All, Still on access to BSD systems, I've found this statement at the Yasr screen reader page: "It thus does not use any features specific to Linux and can be ported to other Unix-like operating systems without too much trouble. The current version should also run under FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris (thanks to Rich Burridge for the Solaris port)." As I know, the most recent Yasr version is able to communicate with speech-dispatcher, so that perhaps it would be possible to use it with ESpeak under a BSD or solaris system. Have someone tested it? The Yasr homepage is: http://yasr.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, Cleverson