Please be aware that the DEC Talk drivers have been broken in recent Speakup Modified kernels on Fedora, at least. I see Kirk checked in a fix the other day, so perhaps this will be resolved when Bill is able to roll this fix into a new kernel build. But, we'll also have to wait for those who can test to give us their reports. Janina Beth Hatch writes: > Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues mm> Hi Janina and all, > > As for Speakup, I've noticed on my desktop machine, where I also use > the Dectalk Express, that Speakup will suddenly stop reading when I'm > in the middle > of reading such things as compiling Gnome-speech or when Yum updates my > system. It will be talking, then it suddenly stops talking, I have to > refresh > the screen in order for it to start talking again. Very strange indeed!