Thanks LittleField-and-John for your analysis. So John, if I understand, once I am in a later kernel, any current anoyances with the DecTalk in Speakup will remain? While I am just a user-and-certainly not a programmer, it almost seems as if emacspeak is nearly an only speech setup with a blessing of developers. And speaking of emacspeak, I sure would `still love to know if I could run a emacspeak DecTalk server in place of the Speakup drivers? Thanks so much in advance--and-certainly John, please travel at a pace which is comfortable, as I will be away later this week. I suppose I will be able to run your new kernel straight from the hard-drive without burning an image? I hope, as my CD drive is jammed. Hart
