O, boy, Liz, I am so glad you mention our DecTalk USB. I think its Slackware which automaticly detects it. Without any success, I am still trying to run interceptty to log Speakup commands to the DecTalk, but something like /dev/tty/s0 doen't get us anywhere. And so far if I go past this Debian 2.6.32 kernel, I would have no speech. Thanks in advance In reality, over the months, I've tried writing William Hubs and others who understand the DecTalk in realation to speakup. Hart