To get the speech back to a normal pitch, hit the plus and minus keys a few times on the number pad with numb pad turned off. -- Charlie. At 01:10 PM 10/3/03 -0400, you wrote: >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. > > > >