OK, on my new speakup install, I did get speech after fixing the parameter syntax, but when I did echo -E \\0x20 >/sys/module/speakup/parameters/delimiters I got invalid argument. Catting the same gets nothing at all, so this may be still broke. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com