Hi Devon, On Sat, 11 May 2013, Devon Stewart wrote: > Well, "ALSA_CARD=1 espeakup" sets the environment variable ALSA_CARD to 1 > for the command about to run (espeakup); It doesn't export anything, it > just sets the variable for that program. Woops! That's pretty obvious now that you point it out. Sorry I was so dense. Now I'm wondering how I managed to get screen reader output going to my card 1? Back to the drawing board. Chuck