i tried: startup dt and it clicks... i know it's working, but i think it still is the newline character. i indeed am using a dectalk pc board , but have a serial link set up with it and the linux based driver. it woill work somewhat under emacspeak and speakup. i can do: echo test >/dev/ttyS0 and it will say test, as long as i add a dot after the word test. if i do: echo test[:sync] >/dev/ttyS-00 it wil speak test right away since [:sync] is a synch command to the synth. what should i do?