Hi, I found an old post to this list which I kept, on starting SpeakUp in GRML. I have tried it with both sudo and without. I ran modprobe speakup_soft then I ran espeakup And I get no speech. There are some rather loud and obnoxious beeps when it starts, but I followed another suggestion to try: alsamixer and up arrow a bunch of times, and that did not help either. I did: speaker-test -c 2 and I do get sound out of the speakers. Any other ideas? Thanks much. Glenn _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup