Hi, Gina: To answer your second question first, yes, someday, I hope! At least, I've not given up on it. But, there are so many changes now, and some of them I'm still grappling with--like the possibility to use Orca with the Live image for installation. I can pretty much promise it won't be before summer. I have a major deliverable due late May which will take all my writing time. As to getting software speech working ... Are you referring to espeak, perhaps? Have you installaed and strated espeakup? It runs as a service like this: service espeakup start And, you make it permanent with: chkconfig espeakup on Oh, and if you don't have it, look for it on the Speakup Modified! It's there. Janina
