Hi all. Attached is the patch that will fix the startup bug with the dectalk express. To patch this, make sure you're in the 'speakup' directory, and do: patch -p0<speakup_dectlk.patch Ameer -------------- next part -------------- --- speakup_dectlk.c 2004-06-04 22:21:03.000000000 -0400 +++ speakup_dectlk.new 2004-06-04 22:12:59.000000000 -0400 @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ return 0; } -static const char init_string[] = "[:pe -380][:dv app 100]"; +static const char init_string[] = "[:pe -380][:dv ap 100]"; static string_var stringvars[] = { { CAPS_START, "[:dv ap 200]" },