If this helps any, I notice this with the DECTalk Express, too. At 11:08 AM 10/8/2005, you wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup