Hello! I just uploaded a new version of brass to: http://www.butenuth.onlinehome.de/blinux brass - BRaille And Speech Server now support IBM Viavoice as synthesizer (currently only for US English). This is just a quick hack, maybe it is not stable, please give feedback. Currently you can't combine this with Softspeech (hadifix, mbrola) for German because both claim the audio device. This may change in the future. Roger