Hi, I think the subject pretty much speaks for itself. With serial synths, and especially serial ports getting harder to find, with the only serials synths still being made new are the venerable doubletalks, should work be ramped up on getting software speech, somehow at kernel level? I know there was a project working on this, but not much has been done on it for a while. Related to this, I assume it's still possible to build speakup into the kernel, although most distributions package speakup as modules, thereby allowing messages from the moment of powerup? thanks, Arthur