Hi. Steve Holmes wrote: > this module sounds interesting. I've always liked coding in > perl but am still somewhat green with it. I would gladly > receive a copy whenever you wish to share it with us. I've just uploaded version 1.00 to CPAN, see: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Speech::Speakup Its section on PARAMETERS says: Most speakup parameters are 0 to 10, default 5. The important silent parameter is a bitmap, but its bits are not well documented; it is known that 7 means silent and 4 restores speech. The synth parameter is a string, which must exist as a subdirectory of the speakup parameter directory. which is about all I know on the subject :-( But I would like to know more, so that Speech::Speakup can complain helpfully if a parameter is out of range. When the calling interface is stable, I'll probably add call-compatible translations into Python3 and maybe Lua... Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949