On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 04:23:19PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > For the softsynth, there is a direct option, which passes things > straight to the synthesizer. I am wondering though if we should just > get rid of all of the character and punctuation processing that is part > of speakup and allow the synthesizer to handle this? I'm all for letting the hardware do it's job, where possible, and saving those CPU cycles for actual work. Michael