Hi Joe! Welcome back. We've missed you around here. You can use speech-dispatcher with quite a few different synths on grml or debian and ubuntu. Some of them are commercial so they cost a small amount depending on the synth. Some of them sound better than espeak also. However, none of the speech-dispatcher synths will give you the responsiveness of espeakup with espeak. So you'll need to make a choice between quality of speech and response. I myself use espeakup/espeak exclusively anymore and have become pretty comfortible with many of the espeak voices. espeak has quite a few different accents you can play with to get a better idea of it's capability so you may find one you like or can tolerate. I'm really sorry to hear about the fire but am very glad to hear about the new family. Good luck with your set-up and again welcome back. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
