Hi all on my last full day in this location. I still notice with the dectalk usb unit, while arrowing down in screen review, many times the pitch-and rate suddenly get knocked down. At that point I must go to the speakup functions which ajust these. I must press each of those once--and my settings are back the way I want them, rate 7 and pitch around 149. Unrelated, I went in the list of charactors and made some changes, so for example, when I type 9 it says niner. Well, for some reason any capital letter I type, it now says quote in a loer voice before saying the letter I type. So if I type a shift s it would say quote s quote Also, remember quite some weeks ago I asked about some strange behavior of dectalk reading the pine index, well, I spoke with a programmer at Access Solutions--and he says its a bug in the engine--and he will try-and-fix it. This is where its saying dates and message numbers in reverse order, so for a message 1 on october 8 it might say >- 1 Oct 8 October first 8 Thanks in advance Hart