OK, thanks for the hint, it does seem to talk and gnome-speech tests work, but the actual gnopernicus does not, now on to try emacspeak. on Fri, 09 May 2003 09:15:29 -0400 Jacob Schmude <jacobs at surferie.net> wrote: > Hi > Well, yes it actually does need eci.ini. Use the inigen program > provided in viavoice's bin directory. To use it, type something like: > inigen /usr/lib/enu50.so eci.ini > Note that viavoice is quite buggy at best, even when not using the > alsa drivers. It seems to crash every 10 minutes or so. > -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com