All, I have just pushed some updates to speakup which make it possible to have different default pitch and volume levels in the dectalk express driver based on which voice is selected. The default settings I have used in the driver are the factory defaults for each voice. The driver version number is 2.18. If you are running from git, please pull and test this driver. The thing that is different is that when you change the voice, the vol and pitch sys files will have values that are reset to the factory defaults for the new voice. This needs to be done so that when you switch voices the speakup settings are synched with the dectalk express settings. Let me know any comments. William