hello, the prompt you want is grml swspeak it times out after 30 seconds (as far as I know). when it gets booted (give it a couple minutes), type swspeak to bring speakup up. HTH, Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: tyler at tysdomain.com My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Sexton" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:05 PM Subject: Getting speakup running with grml > How do I get speakup talking when I boot the grml cd? > does it come up with a boot promptwhere I cold do > grml speakup synth=softsynth > does this prompt time out? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup