Folks, I am interested in trying this out. I am using Fedora 1.0 and everything appears to be installed. The question I have and haven't been able to determine from the docs is this. First in the GNopernicus documentation I found on the web it refers to gnome-speech, but I haven't located this and it apparently is a program. I'll have to go back over the docs to refresh my memory of its purpose, but I guess until I find it that won't matter much.<grin> Can someone tell me if this thing exists and where I might locate it? I might be digging in the wrong place or searching for it incorrectly, but maybe its something else. Ok the other question is do I need to launch festival in server mode prior to running startx or does it get launched as a part of the Gnopernicus startup process. I haven't found anything that says one way or the other, but then I'm not surprised as perhaps its assumed the speech server/whatever is already running. This again could be a missconception on my part. Oh lastly, I reconfigured the box to start in runlevel 3 instead of 5 so I can just run startx. I did run this lastnight my wife mentioned the screen was blank. It was not blank when the runlevel was set to 5 and I ran startx. Any ideas? tia Scott