Hi Here's the order of the commands that I use (note the mknod command needs to be done only once): speech-dispatcher modprobe speakup_sftsyn speechd_up Your speech-dispatcher command may be called speechd, depending on the version you installed. HTH On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Stephen Clower wrote: > Hi Cheryl, > Yes, I've got all of the required packages installed. After getting everything installed I typed the following: > mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26 > modprobe speakup_sftsyn > I got no output from either command, but no speech. Am I missing something?