Gena, I don't like to be the bearer or bad news, but ViaVoice doesn't work on many systems especially when using alsa. Before spending time debugging your problem it would be a good idea to find someone with the same soundcard who is successfully using viavoice. For example, if you have an SBLive card, viavoice works with the emu10k1 driver distributed with the kernel but does not work with alsa. If you're looking for software speech, you'd be safer with festival, flite or the software dectalk from fonix.com. Chris
