I would be interested to see the output of "cat /proc/speakup/version". At one point during the development of the /proc/speakup entries, the settings were read-only. You might need to upgrade to a newer version of speakup. Jim On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:33:18AM -0600, Chris Nestrud wrote: > Hi all. I'm trying to use speakup with a doubletalk lt. When I send > numbers in range 1-9 to /proc/speakup/rate, their is no change in > rate. The default is set at 5, and is quite slow. Any way to increase > speed? > > And yes, the voice is better than the bns. Much better. <grin>