Event not found happens each time I try using speak. The pa-devs program also found the alsa device. I'll try the speak commands exactly as you have them written out. I had put the punctuation into the earlier speak commands because I wanted to find out if speak did inflection like what the old artic business vision synthesizers did. On Sat, 7 May 2011, Kyle wrote: > The message saying "Event not found" is not coming from eSpeak at all. It's a > message from Bash telling you that it can't find a history event that contains > "Hello World." Do you get this message every time you try to send text to > eSpeak? Try something like > speak hello > or > speak " testing 1 2 3 4" > You should hear "hello" or "testing 1 2 3 4" spoken or you should be getting > an entirely different error message such as "libportaudio.so.0: Cannot load > shared object: no such file or directory." or any number of other errors. > "Event not found" *only* comes from Bash to the best of my knowledge. > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list