On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:59:10PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Is there a command line argument or something I can echo to speakup to > kill speech? And is there one to echo to get speakup back up talking While I haven't tried it myself, I would assume rmmod and instmod would work to unload and reload the module, if it's the loadable type. Maybe something like: #!/bin/sh rmmod (your-speakup-module echo "SpeakUP has been unloaded." instmod <your-speakup-module> echo "SpeakUP module has been loaded." ...to test this out. HTH, Michael