The reason why I came up with the default of 100 is because that's from the manual. It can of course be set with a script, but if you reset the voice to the defaults with something like [:np ] it will reset the pitch to 100. Trevor Astrope wrote: > I have the pitch set to 75 on the machine I use a Dectalk Express, but it > is a rhel 3 machine with an 2.4 kernel with an old version of speakup: > > Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Tue Dec 28 15:10:59 EST 2004 > synth dectlk version 1.3 > > My preference is to have the Dectalk to sound as close to an Accent SA as > possible. >