Ay thanks, I'll give this a try. I dont' know if it has anything to do with the firmware version or not, but hopefully it'll work and thanks again. I might have done something slightly different and so I didn't get the message about the synth reinitializing. Scott On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:50:48AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. Here is what I do when I remove my accent SA. > While the synth is still turned off but connected, I do several speakup > review commands. Example: read line read previous line read line read > next line. Then turn on the accent. Press insert enter. You should > hear the synth say "accentSA restarted ". > Your rate will be back at the default, but your synth will > respond as normal. All I have to do is > type "rate d" from a shell to set my rate back to d. Rate is just a > shell script I wrote that just does > echo $1 >/proc/speakup/rate. > > Hope this helps. > Kenny >