Hi all. I thought I'd solved the uppercase trouble via dectalk express, but I can't quite see the pattern of why this is still mutating back. I've defined the following in both /proc/speakup/caps_start and stop as well as the other ones in /etc/speakup I want something else said rather than a pitch increase for capital letters, so I've been saying echo "cap" >/proc/speakup/caps_start and echo " " >/proc/speakup/caps_stop which seems to work for a while, but eventually, it all reverts back to saying caps line start equals stop equals and all that kind of thing. I've catted the contents at this point, and seem to possibly hear things like fifty pee and other such control, almost maybe as if something dumps to those files?? Thus altering what I'd configged?? could that be?? My thought in putting simply quote space quote in the stop file was that if I didn't put anything there, it would correctly say cap for the start file, but then say stop equals and so forth. I'm gathering my files are being written to, as there's never any permission errors. Not sure what actually causes them to botch revert. It just gets a little odd having to retype that in (grin). Thanks. I know that in putting these in both places, it never retains properly upon reboot, but, even if the system is up properly day and day out, within a day or so, the cap mutates back to gibberish. Thanks much as always.