I hadn't tried Debian 7. It turns out I had version 6 where the DEC Express worked, but it slower speech and no means I could find to speed it up. -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Myrow Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:46 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Slack 13.37 and 14.0 Ok, I am using the kernel that ships with Debian 7.0, which is listed as 3.2.0-4-686-pae. My Dectalk USB works just as it always has in RS232 mode. In other words, serial support isn't broken for me. This is the 32-bit version, so maybe that's the difference. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup