Hi Well the subject line says it all. Is it possible to get Via Voice talking on a Debian System with alsa? I used alien to convert the rpm's to deb's. I needed to get an old debian package to provide a library. The package required was: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-4.deb Having done this and ammended the /etc/profile file accordingly, I still get the following error: Could not create ECI handle. Check installation. Possible causes: IBM ViaVoice TTS RTK has not been installed on this machine. no exported ECIINI variable in /etc/profile. eci.ini file not in path referenced by ECIINI, nor in current directory. eci.ini corrupted. library /usr/lib/libibmeci50.so corrupted or missing. language files referenced in eci.ini file corrupted or missing. Re-install IBM ViaVoice TTS RTK. magnolia:/usr/lib/ViaVoiceTTS/samples/cmdlinespeak# Any ideas? Cheers Gena __________________________________________________________ Using the freedom of Debian GNU Linux