Greetings, On 12/26/10, mike cutie and maia <mstopka at centurytel.net> wrote: > I could never get speech to work cause I was told that you needed a hardware > synth A classic case for CentOS Accessibility SIG? I had tried incompletely something like that years back with f7 or something like that. There is a related thread: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-03/0336.html and here: http://linuxbycalvin.blogspot.com/2006/09/speech-recognition-in-linux.html Dated though IIRC EmacsSpeak was one such project Regards, Rajagopal