Hi all. I just hooked a dectalk express to com1 on my other machine, but when I type "linux speakup_synth=dectlk" linux just starts up with no speech. How do I tell it the dectalk is on com1? I've probably seen it before, but I've always used an internal doubletalk and this is the first time I've tried it with a serial synthesizer. BTW, it is compiled in my kernel as well. thanks. Dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at nycap.rr.com http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby