I ended up throwing in the towel on this one. I had speakup turned off and had done chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 as root so the tts device would be accessible, then ran yasr and got complete silence. Strangely enough with the DTK_PROGRAM=doubletalk and DTK_PORT=/dev/ttyS0 set I can't even run emacspeak without getting process speaker not running error. This is on slackware 9_0 with gcc 3.22 too. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list