Hi, From what I can tell, all of the text is written to the screen even though it isn't spoken. It's hard to know for sure because the Speakup commands don't work but if I press keypad Enter and keypad Plus to read what's on the screen it reads text that wasn't previously spoken. Also I can press the backspace and get a beep from Bash implying that I'm at a shell prompt. Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hello Tony: That sounds like speakup isn't putting your current > process to sleep when the synths buffer gets full. If you can check > the virtual console device after this happens and see if the text > output stopped at that point or if it completed as I suspect it had. > When the synths buffer gets full speakup is suppose to put the spewing > process to sleep until the buffer has cleared enough room to allow > continuation. I'll look at the code and see if the go-to-sleep code > has gotten munged for the DECTalk Express driver. >