David Sexton wrote: > problem: when reading letter-by-letter capital letters are said in a squeaky > voice with quotes around them for example capitla a would be said as quote a > quote Hello, As for the squeaky voice, the pitch shift is probably too high for IBM TTS. Maybe you should change it from 3 to 2 or 1. It seems that you are using Speakup 3.0.3, which didn't strip off the quotes around the caps_start and caps_stop strings. When you load them with speakupconf, Speakup isn't removing the enclosing quotes that it added when they were saved. Try running these two commands: echo -n '\x01+2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_start echo -n '\x01-2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_stop You might want to put these in a shell script. Call it after you load your settings with speakupconf. Hope this helps, -- Chris