In article <4ed890598dchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was about to 'fix' the applet, which, as David has suggested, > should be trivial. However, I thought I would install the speak > module and speech applet to test the 'before' behaviour, and lo and > behold the fi and fl ligatures are spoken correctly. The version of > the speak module I am using is 2.18 (19 Feb 2003). Do different > versions of the speak module behave differently? OK - it looks like v. 2 of the speak module did speak the ligatures, but I have just found v. 3.03 on my hard drive, and after installing that it doesn't. So it does look as if the applet needs to be modified to speak these ligatures. Chris... -- Chris Johnson