Somebody wrote: > Is he correct that speakup default installs to a hardware synthesizer? It is correct that by itself, speakup (i.e. the piece inside the kernel) can only driver hardware synthesizers. To get software synthesizers working, one need to run them in userland and plug to speakup with espeakup or speechd-up. For information, he does very much welcome pointers and hints, so feel free to send him anything you believe could help him, he'll be glad to have a look. Samuel