Bill - Thanks for that info! I am abandoning my dumpspk/loadspk in favor of the method you described. It works great and does not run the risk of being obsoleted. The settings I am changing are 'rate' and 'punc_level', but I noticed another called 'punct' which has a default of 7. What is that all about? Chuck On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > Hi Raul, > > Loadspk doesn't work any more. The speech parameters are all > controlled from files in /proc/speakup. I created a directory called > /etc/speakup and put my settings in that directory. I made a file for > rate and put 6 in it and so on. Then, in my rc.local, I put a line that > says: > cp -R /etc/speakup /proc > note the uppercase R. > > > > HTH. > Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Gibbous (57% of Full)