Hi I also have this problem. The trick is to turn speakup off, change the rate, then turn it back on. For some reason turning it off allows the characters to reach the synth. On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:28:52PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: > Hi guys. INstalled RH 7.1 yesterday on a machine with the 2.4.2 kernel > with a doubletalk-lt synthesizer and for some reason when I try ot > change the rate the controll characters that are used to change the > rate get spoken instead of getting passed along like they should be. > I don't see this behavior in the 2.2 series kernels and I'm using the > latest cvs. Anyone else with this synth have this problem? > Thanks.