This morning I was reading email and all of a sudden the speech stopped. I turned the computer off and restarted. nothing!! Unplugged the speakers and did another restart and I have no sound on start up or window-eyes and/or anything else. Thannk god for the braille display or I'd be totally dead in the water. Any ideas? Can this be fixed? Do they just go out like that? call if you want cause reading email on a 40 cell display in a pain. 420-9953 Thanks for any ideas. Wendy To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes