Well, seemingly the posting address of this list vanished from my pine addressbook, so my posting of yesterday went in the Bermuda Triangle. HAhaHAhaHA OK, orriginally I had asked Kirk when the Speakup live discussion will be? I then mentioned I had edited charactors, to change pronunciations, now they say dollar sign number sign niner zee percent sign question mark I ran a commands speakupconf save&&speakupconf load As another lister suggested, I edited these in sys accessabillity speakup Funny thing is orriginally the DecTalk finds a directory called comma but reading as individual charactors, its a quote sign, so I type cd "" then is says sys chime sys So, once again now that these changes are active, I notice more slowing in an ssh connect to shellworld. We have seen this before, but I guess no1 else notices this--and-they would seem completely separate functions. Yes, still in Debian 2.6.32 with a DecTalk U S B. Thanks so much in advance Hart