I'm surprised the rate thing didn't work for you but for punct_level, try 3. For me, 3 set punct_level to "all" and I get all punctuation marks spoken. I use a speakout with Speakup 1.00. I think punct_all would currently contain all the characters to be include - not positive though. What kind of synthesizer are you using? That might make a difference on what to pass to the rate / pitch / volume parameters. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Ward [mailto:tward@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:55 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Setting punctuation. Hi, list. I tried doing the following with absolutely no success. echo 9 >/proc/speakup/punc_level echo 9 >/proc/speakup/punc_all I have even tried the rate settings by doing something like: echo 7 >/proc/speakup/rate Thus far nothing is working. Speakup won't set to whatever I do. Any suggestions? How in heck does one get Speakup set and change voice settings? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup