Hi Owen, > in order to get everything to work correctly you SHOULD NOT > be in the speakup directory when untaring the tar.gz file we > provided Yes, I figured that out, as I mentioned in a subsequent message. Thanks for the reply. I have another question: it seems that Flite (festival lite) is running on StrongArm processors. They have a distribution that is set up for iPAQ ... now I wonder ... do you think it might be possible to run speakup on StrongArm and tweak these mods to make it use Flite? Then the same could be done on a PDA. Now that would be cool ... -- Doug