-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I've been trying to use speechd-el within emacs, speech-dispatcher and espeak. Basically, the combo is working pretty well but I can't enable any detailed punctuation. Now keep in mind that Speakup delivers punctuation beautifully through speechd and speech-dispatcher but that is probably due to internal interpretation, I'm betting. Some of my testing of passing litteral strings directly into espeak revealed that punctuation characters like parens, semicolons, number signs get squashed. Is there any way to bring those out? I can't seem to find any controls to pass to espeak to expose punctuation marks. Once I get the punctuation deal worked out, speechd-el will be another tool to use along side Speakup when running emacs special apps like calendar and dired. In fact, I was using speakup and speechd-el at the same time and it was really cool. I just turned speakup off so I could use speechd-el and any time I wanted to read the current line or spell out the current word or review punctuation marks:), I could use the reading commands from speakup with no conflicts over the sound device or any of that. So, any ideas on the espeak punctuation situation? Thanks. - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFSR7KWSjv55S0LfERA/lJAJ4jivv2fyvY/ugJpyIdCqrFTw5YaACfYVe1 QsmwUMoA57r3+docItpQuVo= =Cwdp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----