OK I give up. I gotta ask the experts. I got red hat 8 installed last week (only took me 4 times) and we won't go in to the names I called my computer. surfises to say some of the plastic parts are melted now. I got my network working and have pine reading and sending email I am proud of my self for getting this far. but I can't fix speakup now for my questions. 1. How do I speed up the synth he is reading about 2 words a minute. I am using a dectalk express. started out using a lite talk but I couldn't understand it well enough to do the install so on the 4th try I used the dectalk 2. How do i get the dectalk from going nuts every time he sees an upper case letter. He sounds like someone squeezed his private parts and he stays that way till I turn him off and back on again. I also get command error in parameter. I remember this from when I use to program stuff in msdos and didn't get the parm quite right. Where can i go to put in the correct parameters. you can email me at Sam-I-Am at sc.rr.com and I thank you in advance. Going nuts. Sam I look forward to getting back into programming again. I got burned out trying to get the ide's in windows to work with screen readers and quit. How things change and stay the same at the same time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20031003/a9020f3c/attachment.html>