You scribbled: >I've found it best to change the default synth to none before >disconnecting a serial synth in speakup 2.0. > >I have never been able to successfuly disconnect and reconnect a serial >synth like you could with speakup 1.5. > It works for me. All I do is hit the key to kill Speakup and take the synth out and then I come back, plug the synth in and hit that key again and it always tells me that it's alive. I have Speakup built into the kernel usually though so that could make a difference.