Hi Jacob: We changed it to /usr/bin because we tend to use debian which doesn't use the /usr/local tree very much. /usr/local once had a purpose which was to place things which you were installing on a machine which hosted hundreds or thousands of users, in a place to indicate this was local to this machine only. We don't need that tree really anymore because most linux boxes are totally local themselves. Why have extra directories you don't need to look through when starting a command. I will look into including the entire voice range for doubletalk if we don't already. I thought we did. Loadspeak has had direct synth support since about v-0.3. The command is direct=. Imagine that! Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061