Why not try decreasing your delay_time a bit to see if that helps with choppiness. I believe the default may be 500 (ms) so check that first to make sure I'm right and then decrease it by 50. So: echo 450 >/proc/speakup/delay_time See if that helps the choppiness. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061