Jacob, I've gotten viavoice to speak one or two phrases before it prints some return codes on the screen and must be stopped with a ctrl-c. Make sure your oss modules are loaded by doing an lsmod as root. I suspect what is going on is viavoice was tested with a certain set of shared libraries. Unfortunately, I can't find documentation on what specific libraries are needed. -- Chris The Moon is Waning Gibbous (87% of Full)