I wonder if your failure to get speech when booting is because of one or more of the following: (1) You booted your DOS system with speech loaded and then tried to run loadlin -- the speakout has a problem with this. The other possibility which comes to mind is that you are not doing the corrrect boot sequence which is to boot the disk, wait till it stops going, hit enter and then you hear the disk for a while and then it should start talking. Hope this helps. -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com