Hi! >>>>> "JH" == Juan Hernandez <juan at labradorable.net> writes: JH> Hello, I would like to know what speech engine is the best? I have JH> festival and running on my computer what others are nice? festival JH> sounds like a chipmunk. I wanna use it with gnopernicus. THanks in JH> advanced. also, I am running fedora core 1.0 tnx I had similar problem with Festival under redhat 9. In my case the reason for such behaviour was that i was using internal (onboard) sound card. After installing external sound card (Creative awe128 pci) that problem went away. With best regards, Sergey.