Responding to a message written by Curtis Shimamoto: # Did you create the service file for it? If so, then you could just make it # something like espeakup@.service and then just put a "%I" in the ExecStart # command where the voice/language would typically go. That way the user could # enable something like espeakup@en-sc.service. Even better. I had seen that done for devices and virtual private networks, but I had never actually tried it for other command line options. It occurs to me that since I had a major hand in writing the espeakup systemd service that is included with the package in the community repo that I could have added that option, but my goal at the time was to get it ready for systemd as quickly as possible, and since no default was specified in the init script, I just used the espeakup command with no optional arguments. Oh well, I'd say it's probably too late to send in a patch for that now that everyone using espeakup knows to systemctl enable espeakup.service ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"