This is me trying to set the rate and such. Their isn't any change in the rate, though /proc/speakup/rate does update with changes that I echo to it. I also notice that if I type something in a shell, the first letter of the first line of reply text isn't spoken. As an example, if I'm in bash and type an invalid command, the first word spoken is "ash" instead of "bash". Any other lines after the first are spoken correctly. I'm using speakup-0.10a.tar.gz,. Very strange. After playing with things for a moment, it appears as if the strings which should be interpreted by the synth as rate changes are bleeding through. It does this for volume, pitch, and probably others. Begin Transcript pfui:~# cat /proc/speakup/version Speakup v-0.10 pfui:~# cat /proc/speakup/litetalk/version Version-0.10 pfui:~# cat /proc/speakup/rate 5 pfui:~# echo "9" > /proc/speakup/rate pfui:~# echo "no change in rate" no change in rate pfui:~# cat /proc/speakup/rate 9 End Transcript Chris On 15 Jan 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Chris: Did you include the greater-than sign as in: > > echo 9 >/proc/speakup/rate > > Just making sure we are all on the same page so to speak. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >