I'm not sure about the keymap issue. I don't know if that is done automatically when you rebuild speakup or if some procedure needs to be done to rebuild it. Maybe Kirk can give a better answer on this one. I have the read all command working, but only for a few of the synths. When I finished read all, I asked if there was anyone to help with the development of the other synths, but I never got much of a response. I can give you the status as I know it. Dectalk, doubletalk, and litetalk should work as far as I know. I have all 3 synths, so I can test these easily. Speakout has been implemented, but there are some issues and it seems to behave differently with different kernels, but I don't have one to try and fix the issues.. Speech Dispatcher should work with Festival. It should be fairly easy to implement other synths, but since I don't have access to them, I haven't been able to implement them. Mike