Most distros that ship Speakup use the Espeak synthesizer available at http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ These distros usually include Espeak packages along with a connector called Espeakup, which sends Speakup's output to Espeak. Vinux also is reported to use a connector called Speechd-up, which rather than sending Speakup's output to Espeak, instead sends it to speech- dispatcher, but by all accounts, speechd-up is no longer developed, although I could be wrong on that point. Hope this helps. Sent from my single board computer _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup