Hi all, Turn off the speakup before running emacspeak. You have to do that. You can run speakup in a different buffer. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT