I was trying to get speakup to work with speech-dispatcher using kernel 2.6.36 -- however speechd-up seems not to do anything. I have speech dispatcher to use the port and start as a centralized service using its latest version. Is it possible to get this working? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com