Well, Kirk-and-All, the appostrafee has never worked correctly in processing words in the 11 months I've been running Linux. Some other outstanding concerns, if numbers-and-letters are mixed, they are spelled, so if I were to write speakup4you my decpc will say s p e a k u p 4u. Also, and this may be a dectalkism but if there are 2 consecutive punctuations after a word, I think it also spells it out? While reading with l y n x if I use a tab key, it will sometimes read the sameword many times over-and-over-and-over. Also, if there are 2 consecutive dashes it says semi : I didn't notice many of these items useing dectalk with Vocal-eyes or Jaws. Thanks Hart