Chris, No, JAWS for DOS requires that you have a hardware synthesizer. As to the second part of your question: "Running JAWS for DOS from a DOS box", that term normally means you have Windows running, and are simulating DOS from a DOS window. This is not the same as booting from a disk which contains MS DOS, and then launching a batch file which launches JAWS for DOS. Alan Chris wrote: "Does JAWS for DOS support software speech? I know it would be limited and probably would support very few, but if it does can I run JAWS for DOS in a DOS box?"