Hi all, You can't do that, Janina, or at least I don't think you can. You can read with the numpad options in speakup while in Emacspeak, but if you turn on speaking mode in speakup, it will louse everything up. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT