hi, would spd-conf help you in this case? Rob Whyte On 04/06/11 01:38, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > Well, it depends on your distribution. On a Gentoo system, you can edit > /etc/conf.d/espeakup, there's a variable there which you can use to > change the voice the daemon uses. Once you change it, you can just do > /etc/init.d/espeakup restart to implement the change. I imagine other > distributions have a similar procedure, yes? At the very least, you can > just edit your init script to pass the --default-voice argument to > espeakup when it starts.