Geetha: Please excuse me. You did say what synthesizer you have in your message, the Doubletalk PC internal. This is excellent. It's the best card, imho, for Speakup. Simply change the lilo.conf to something like: append "speakup_synth=dtlk" And, of course, you might want to change the label= and default= as well. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org