If I understand you, you want to turn irssi into a self-voicing app. If so, you're best off using the GTK version, imo, so that you can pass text strings directly to AT-SPI. I don't see how you would achieve this kind of object oriented approach with Speakup. But, perhaps I misunderstand? Janina Rob Hudson writes: > I am going to be writing a speech interface for irssi, similar to that which is already present in mirc. That was one of the things I immediately missed upon my switch to linux. > Would it be better to have the scripts send messages to something like speech-dispatcher, or can messages be queued and sent directly to speakup itself? This project is only in the idea phase now, so i'm drawing a blueprint of how I want it to go. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/