Hi: Just a thought. You wouldn't have to load the whole viavoice thing as a module would you, just an interface between speakup and the user-space viavoice program? Am I talking out my backside here? Anyway, until modularisation is a reality, supporting viavoice at all is not a possibility. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701