The subject says it all pretty much. If I have Speakup running as modules, it always lists the synth module as unused even if it is speaking. I would think it would show as used unless you had speech silenced when you did the lsmod command. An example from lsmod shows the Accent PC module as unused even though it's what I am running at the moment. Module Size Used by Not tainted speakup_acntpc 2028 0 (unused) speakupmain 46372 0 [speakup_acntpc] I'm just curious about this.