Hugh, I was surprised you didn't have a festival_server in your festival/bin directory. My version of festival is 1.4.3 which I built from sources last week. Perhaps running festival with the --server option is the same as running festival_server, but I'd need to read more docs to verify it. You need festival to run as a server because that's how middleware communicates with it. I just look at the festival help screen and is says you can invoke it as you did to go into server mode. Did you make the /dev/usrdev devicefile with the mknod command? Do a % ls -l /dev/usrdev Mine looks like: crw-r--r-- 1 root root 252, 0 Jul 28 16:18 /dev/usrdev You can check if you've loaded the festival speakup driver by doing an % ls /proc/speakup You should see a subdirectory for the festival driver. I don't recall its name, but it should be the only subdirectory listed. Within it are settings for the festival driver. If I think of anything else, I'll pass it along. Chris
