short answer, no. Fortunately litetalk speech synthesizers last time I checked their price had dropped to $190.00. This is the external litetalk that uses a 9 pin serial port to talk. Long answer, slackware has decided blind people don't need a talking install for software speech on slackware. Theoretically it is possible to first run a hardware install then add necessary packages for software speech from slackbuilds.org then reconfigure lilo or grub then reboot slackware into a software speech configuration. Of course you'll have to replace the slackware kernel with a stock kernel without slackware modifications and know how to build packages coming off of slackbuilds.org first too. There is one website with instructions on installing emacspeak on slackware and having slackware come up running emacspeak but I never managed to get that talking either. jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
