Hi Well, horendous... that's just how flite sounds. Anyway, here's something to try: have the softsynth module be the first speakup module you load--don't load the modules for your hw synth. Try running speechd_up and see if that works. On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Stephen Clower wrote: > Hello Jacob, > Although horrendous, this command worked so I know Speech-Dispatcher is running.