Hello again folks, I've gotten speech-dispatcher and speechd-up installed and configured, but I've hit one minor snag; Speech-dispatcher is unable to open either the Flite or Dectalk for speech output. The Emacspeak servers for both modules appear to work so I'm a bit stumped here. Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net