All, currently speakup has 3 different groups of punctuation levels: - speakup punctuation level - reading punctuation level - synthesizer punctuation level The speakup and reading punctuation levels are able to be set by the user from the keyboard, but the synthesizer punctuation has to be set from a sys file. I have no idea what the reading punctuation level is or why it is separate from the speakup punctuation level. What does everyone think about combining the reading punctuation level into the speakup punctuation level and using the keys that adjust the reading punctuation level to control the synth punctuation level? Thanks, William