On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 03:53:50PM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > Well, William-and-All, since I am not a programmer, if Speakup did not handle > these events, would I need to learn phonetics-and-program the DecTalk USB > directly? I don't think so. I want to look at the synthesizer documentation and see how they work. I believe most of them have an exception dictionary internally which could be programmed. If I don't use that, it might be possible to implement a simple exception dictionary in speakup,. William