Using Speakup review commands with the synth turned off is what I meant by pressing keys. Sorry I didn't make that more clear. It is also quite a kludge IMHO. At the time I originally posted about this issue with an Accent SA, somebody mentioned a script that would reset all synth values on demand. I never got around to playing with it to see if it would reinitialize the Accent SA after it had been turned off, and now that I have the Accent PC and am using it directly, I don't need it. By the way, when using the Accent PC as a serial synthesizer, do you use the Accent SA driver in Speakup?