I have noticed this problem before. I think at one point I may have even found a way around it, because it hasn't been happening on my older version for a while. Let's say I am reading something with less, and tell it to scroll the next 200 lines at me. About 50 lines in (just a guess), speakup will suddenly go silent. The next several key presses will have no effect, until suddenly it is back, although the scrolled text is gone. I do not know my older version where this happened, but I know it wasn't happening in Shane's Debian boot CD, which was using some version from CVS around the time 2.0 was released, I believe. Luke