Hello, I was all set to run Chuck's talkwith script but it wasn't necessary. I had speakup running with espeakup. Next I loaded the dectlk module and specified a serial port lite this: sudo modprobe speakup_dectlk ser=1 Speakup read out some dectalk commands and finished with dectalk expressed detected. Next I unloaded espeakup like this: sudo /etc/rc.d/espeakup stop And speakup automatically switched to the dectalk with having to do anything else. I also verified that the synth parameter contains dectlk. I guess I have two questions for Chuck. First, why two scripts? Do they do different things? And, second, now that speakup seems to be smart enough to switch to the hardware synth when the soft connector is killed, when are these scripts necessary? You may want to include a README file in the tarball to explain some of this stuff. FYI, I'm running arch linux with sudo installed. I expect we'd get similar behavior on a debian based system. Chris
