Hi all. I doubt I'll get any response on this before morning, but I sure hope someone can help me by then as I have to start back to work after the holidays tomorrow morning. I am using JFW 5.1, win 98 SE, and prefer DEC-Access32 or DEC-Talk Express synthecizer, the latter being my choice for work purposes as I have to plug into my speaker system in order to control the volume of doctors I transcribe for. It would drive me nutty to try to use even my DECAccess32 software for work purposes since it too comes through my speakers. I have to reserve the speakers/sound card for the doctor's voice and use the external synth for my speech output. No matter what I do, and I've even tried restoring the defaults for the DEC-Talk Express, It's reading commas, periods, at signs, asterisks, colons, you name it, even underlines. It doesn't say them when I'm typing, but if I go back andread over a document, such as this note, it will read me every single punctuation mark it can find. It even reads underlines and colons in e-mail subjects, and at signs, which is driving me crazy. Please help me straighten this out before 10:30 Central time in the morning or I shall be driven stark raving mad because I don't want any punctuation to be read for any reason whatsoever. Thanks, and I hope all of you had a nice holiday season. Jeanie Vejil -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx