Hi Willem, On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:29:15AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: > Good day, > I were under the impression that I can echo a 1 to the synth_direct ebntry > in the /sys/accessibility/speakup directory to tell speakup to just pass > the punct/special chars directly to the synthesizer. Actually the sys file you should be using is /sys/accessibility/speakup/[synthname]/direct for example, /sys/accessibility/speakup/soft/direct. The one you are using is for sending text or commands directly to the synthesizer. William