The last time I dealt with something like this was about ten years ago and I have forgotten much about it plus things may have changed. I am receiving serial input from a device that reads the parallel port and converts that output to serial. The highest speed that is possible out of that device is 37400 which sounds a bit odd in speakup because it may be trying to say words before they are fully formed. In anyway, you have to get up to 115200 baud before things sound truly normal but I remember a value that one can set which makes the timer between characters not time out as quickly. It is useful in situations like this where the data are not coming as fast as one might like. When not using this device and running normally, this timer must be set back to what it was or speakup gets a bit sluggish. Can someone please remind me what this variable is so I can slow things down again? Thank you. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup