OK so I fixed or rather figured out why jaws wasn't talking on startup, but it seems also that now jaws does not play any sounds that might have been chosen through speech and sounds manager. Again, if I quit and reboot jaws, it works, so it seems to me that jaws sends those sounds to the USB phone, rather than my soundcard, so I forced synth to use my audigy soundcard, but is there the way to force sounds to use it too? What I mean is that if, for example, in speech and sounds manager I made jaws to play a sound rather then say heading level 1 when I go to a heading, this sound can't be heard until I unload then reload jaws. Thanks in advance for any help. Vanja MSN messenger: sudar23@xxxxxxxxxxx AIM: vanja121 Skype: vanja121 http://www.sudar.co.uk