Portage in Gentoo will overite any init script modifications wich means that editing the init script for Speechd-up won't necessarily be the best result. The best idea is to find a configuration file for Speechd-up. If there are any Gentoo users who have gotten Speechd-up to start with -t automatically(I hate manually launching things!) Then please email me off list to avoid getting oconfused. There are too many replys eaven in digest mode to glance at and I have little time to look at them. Regards, --Keith.