You can set speech parameters by echoing values to files in the /proc/speakup directory. For example to set the rate on my doubletalk at tis max I use: echo 9 >/proc/speakup/rate To examine the values of these settings du: cat /proc/speakup/rate What I did was to create a /etc/speakup directory and copy the /proc/speakup tree into it. Then in my rc.local file I added the line: cp /etc/speakup/* /proc/speakup to load my customized settings at boot. -- Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org PGP Public Key ID: 45CBBABD http://stivers-home.dyndns.org