diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 588ef952..00a18f7f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,29 +1,39 @@
 # fenrir (Alfa)
 An TTY screenreader for Linux.
-Its an early alpha version. You can test it. It is not recommended for production use. If you want to help just let me know.
+Its an early alpha version. You can test it. It is not recommended for production use. In theorie its not limited to linux. but i currently only provide drivers for that because I have no ohter system here. If you want to help or write drivers to make it work on other systems, just let me know.
 
-# requirements
+# requirements (core)
 - linux
 - python3
-- python-espeak
 - python-evdev
 - loaded uinput kernel module
-Read permission to the following files:
-/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty0/active
-/dev/vcsa[1-64]
-ReadWrite permission 
-/dev/input
-/dev/uinput
+- Read permission to the following files:
+  - /sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty0/active
+  - /dev/vcsa[1-64]
+- ReadWrite permission 
+  - /dev/input
+  - /dev/uinput
+- speech, sound or braille drivers see "optional (features, drivers)".
 
-# optional 
-- sox [its used by default in the generic sound driver for playing sound-icons]
-- speech-dispatcher, python3-speechd [to use the speech-dispatcher driver]
-- brltty, python-brlapi [using braille] # (not implemented yet)
-- gstreamer [soundicons via gstreamer]
-- GLib [soundicons via gstreamer]
-- python-pyenchant [spell check functionality]
-- aspell-<language> [your languagedata for spellchecker, english support "aspell-en"]
-- python-daemonize [use fenrir as background service on Unix like systems]
+# optional (features, drivers)
+- "espeak" speech driver:
+  - python-espeak
+- "speechd" speech driver:
+  - speech-dispatcher
+  - python-speechd
+- brltty braille driver (not implemented yet, WIP):
+  - brltty (configured and running)
+  - python-brlapi
+- "generic" sound driver:
+  - sox
+- "gstreamer" sound driver
+  - gstreamer 1.x
+  - GLib
+- spellchecker
+  - python-pyenchant
+  - aspell-YourLanguageCode (example aspell-en for us english)
+- unix daemon:
+  - python-daemonize
 
 # installation
 - Archlinux: PKGBUILD in AUR
@@ -32,5 +42,9 @@ ReadWrite permission
 You can just run the following as root:
 cd src/fenrir-package/
 sudo ./fenrir
-Settings are located in the "config" directory.
-
+Settings "settings.conf" is located in the "config" directory.
+Take care that the used drivers in the config matching your installed drivers. 
+By default it uses:
+- sound driver: generic (via sox, could configured in settings.conf)
+- speech driver: speechd
+- braille driver: brltty (WIP)
diff --git a/autostart/systemd/fenrir.service b/autostart/systemd/fenrir.service
index 449e3155..92e704ee 100644
--- a/autostart/systemd/fenrir.service
+++ b/autostart/systemd/fenrir.service
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ After=systemd-udev-settle.service sound.target
 [Service]
 Type=forking
 PIDFile=/var/run/fenrir.pid
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/fenrir
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/fenrir-daemon
 ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
 Restart=always
 #Group=fenrir
diff --git a/config/settings/espeak.settings.conf b/config/settings/espeak.settings.conf
index 76ea1f1a..593241ad 100644
--- a/config/settings/espeak.settings.conf
+++ b/config/settings/espeak.settings.conf
@@ -129,3 +129,8 @@ delaySec=0
 # present time after to given minutes example every 15 minutes: 00,15,30,45
 # if delaySec is >0 onMinutes is ignored
 onMinutes=00,30
+# announce via soundicon
+announce=True
+# interrupt current speech for time announcement
+interrupt=False
+
diff --git a/config/settings/settings.conf b/config/settings/settings.conf
index 9b8e7986..d7659dab 100644
--- a/config/settings/settings.conf
+++ b/config/settings/settings.conf
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ list=
 
 [time]
 # automatic time anouncement
-enabled=False
+enabled=True
 # present time
 presentTime=True
 # present date (on change)
@@ -135,3 +135,7 @@ delaySec=0
 # present time after to given minutes example every 15 minutes: 00,15,30,45
 # if delaySec is >0 onMinutes is ignored
 onMinutes=00,30
+# announce via soundicon (not interrupting)
+announce=True
+# interrupt current speech for time announcement
+interrupt=False
diff --git a/config/settings/settings.conf.chrys b/config/settings/settings.conf.chrys
index e348d363..ad61c76f 100644
--- a/config/settings/settings.conf.chrys
+++ b/config/settings/settings.conf.chrys
@@ -135,3 +135,7 @@ delaySec=0
 # present time after to given minutes example every 15 minutes: 00,15,30,45
 # if delaySec is >0 onMinutes is ignored
 onMinutes=00,30
+# announce via soundicon
+announce=True
+# interrupt current speech for time announcement
+interrupt=False
diff --git a/config/settings/settings.conf.storm b/config/settings/settings.conf.storm
index 2714b2c2..864d672a 100644
--- a/config/settings/settings.conf.storm
+++ b/config/settings/settings.conf.storm
@@ -85,3 +85,7 @@ delaySec=0
 # present time after to given minutes example every 15 minutes: 00,15,30,45
 # if delaySec is >0 onMinutes is ignored
 onMinutes=00,30
+# announce via soundicon
+announce=True
+# interrupt current speech for time announcement
+interrupt=False
diff --git a/config/sound/default-wav/Announce.wav b/config/sound/default-wav/Announce.wav
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f817467e
Binary files /dev/null and b/config/sound/default-wav/Announce.wav differ
diff --git a/config/sound/default-wav/soundicons.conf b/config/sound/default-wav/soundicons.conf
index 4e34285a..8f6bba93 100644
--- a/config/sound/default-wav/soundicons.conf
+++ b/config/sound/default-wav/soundicons.conf
@@ -48,3 +48,5 @@ PromotedText='PromotedText.wav'
 mispell='mispell.wav'
 # the for capital letter
 capital='Caps.wav'
+# general announcement
+announce="Announce.wav"
diff --git a/config/sound/default/Announce.opus b/config/sound/default/Announce.opus
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0eea2d5f
Binary files /dev/null and b/config/sound/default/Announce.opus differ
diff --git a/config/sound/default/soundicons.conf b/config/sound/default/soundicons.conf
index 53a4068e..3b11a371 100644
--- a/config/sound/default/soundicons.conf
+++ b/config/sound/default/soundicons.conf
@@ -48,3 +48,5 @@ PromotedText='PromotedText.opus'
 mispell='mispell.opus'
 # the for capital letter
 capital='Caps.opus'
+# general announcement
+announce="Announce.opus"
diff --git a/config/sound/template/soundicons.conf b/config/sound/template/soundicons.conf
index fadbbb0b..56242933 100644
--- a/config/sound/template/soundicons.conf
+++ b/config/sound/template/soundicons.conf
@@ -48,3 +48,5 @@ PromotedText=''
 mispell=''
 # the for capital letter:
 capital=''
+# general announcement
+announce=""
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 258af8d3..5a47f695 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ setup(
     # Packages
     packages=find_packages('src/fenrir'),
     package_dir={'': 'src/fenrir'},
-    scripts=['src/fenrir/fenrir'],
+    scripts=['src/fenrir/fenrir','src/fenrir/fenrir-daemon'],
     #entry_points = {
     #    "console_scripts": ['fenrir = fenrir:main']
     #    },
diff --git a/src/fenrir/commands/onScreenUpdate/76000-time.py b/src/fenrir/commands/onScreenUpdate/76000-time.py
index 20b2062d..4e9306df 100644
--- a/src/fenrir/commands/onScreenUpdate/76000-time.py
+++ b/src/fenrir/commands/onScreenUpdate/76000-time.py
@@ -44,18 +44,28 @@ class command():
             if now.hour == self.lastTime.hour:
                 if now.minute == self.lastTime.minute:
                     return
-              
+        dateFormat = self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSetting('general', 'dateFormat')
+        dateString = datetime.datetime.strftime(now, dateFormat)
+        
+        presentDate = self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSettingAsBool('time', 'presentDate') and \
+          self.lastDateString != dateString
+        presentTime = self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSettingAsBool('time', 'presentTime')              
+        # no changed value to announce
+        if not (presentDate or presentTime):
+            return  
         timeFormat = self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSetting('general', 'timeFormat')
         timeString = datetime.datetime.strftime(now, timeFormat)
         
-        dateFormat = self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSetting('general', 'dateFormat')
-        dateString = datetime.datetime.strftime(now, dateFormat)
-        if self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSettingAsBool('time', 'presentTime'):
+        if self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSettingAsBool('time', 'interrupt'):                               
+            self.env['runtime']['outputManager'].interruptOutput()
+        if self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSettingAsBool('time', 'announce'):                               
+            self.env['runtime']['outputManager'].playSoundIcon('announce')        
+        
+        if presentTime:
             # present the time
             self.env['runtime']['outputManager'].presentText('Autotime: ' + timeString , soundIcon='', interrupt=False)
         # and date if changes
-        if self.env['runtime']['settingsManager'].getSettingAsBool('time', 'presentDate'):        
-            if self.lastDateString != dateString:
+        if presentDate:
                 self.env['runtime']['outputManager'].presentText(dateString , soundIcon='', interrupt=False)        
                 self.lastDateString = dateString
         self.lastTime = datetime.datetime.now()
diff --git a/src/fenrir/core/settings.py b/src/fenrir/core/settings.py
index c21aca01..d456dc05 100644
--- a/src/fenrir/core/settings.py
+++ b/src/fenrir/core/settings.py
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ settings = {
   'presentDate': True,  
   'delaySec': 0,
   'onMinutes': '00,30',
+  'announce': True,
+  'interrupt': False,
 },
 'keyboard':{
   'driver': 'evdev',