Ed Vance -> AUGUST ABOLINS said..

 EV> Way back in the 1990's I helped a fellow I worked with install
 EV> some "Speaking" software on his Win95 computer...

 EV> It was a disaster..

 EV> From my experience that day, I wouldn't reccommend Tom trying it,
 EV> it might get Him too frustrated, where He couldn't even type plain text
 EV> anymore to us.

Software/hardware has changed a lot since "way back".   Maybe
it's worth revisiting the techonology today.

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