I just installed the latest CVS version of speakup using the 2.2.18 kernel and I find that the control-E character does not get escaped when sending it to /proc/speakup/speakout/direct. When I use \005 in front of a command, I hear "005" followed by the command. I get similar results when trying ^E and such. Isn't this supposed to work? Let me know if I missed something. P.S. I know I'm running the latest version since I can get tone J to take now. That didn't work with speakup-0.10A production version.