Wow, that did it, John! Thanks. I hadn't heard of typing a few chars while the synth was off. Guess even power cycling isn't always enough. And, gladit was me and not the software. John covici writes: > From: John covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> > > You might want to get your synth back to standard settings before > using speakup -- and someone correct me if I am wrong -- turn the > synth off and type a few characters so speakup gets a time out and > then turn the synth back on and hit insert-keypad enter and see if > that helps at all. The intro character is the one which introduces > all doubletalk commands control-a I think.