Hi all, I finally got around to taking a look at Speech Dispatcher. I ran into two problems so far. Using either ibmtts or espeak, SD would often split words while reading. Configuration would sometimes come out as con figuration, and so on. Worse yet, it appears that SD doesn't support pitch changes for uppercase letters. When I was finished playing with the new configuration, I switched back to Marc Mulcahy's spk-connect-viavoice. To my surprise and lack of amusement, I no longer had a pitch change on caps. I tried everything I could think of, even resetting /proc/speakup/synnth_name from sftsyn to none and back again. Nothing helped short of a reboot. Any ideas? -- Bill in Denver