I was never told this. Is this version specific, mine does cursor parking with the - key and reading the screen from the top with the + key. Do I take it these have changed function in later versions. I admit the version supplied with Slackware 9 is 1.0 would you believe. Is there an easy to run .tgz to update this perhaps? GA! <<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.>>