you sure are, did you run speechd_up -s because you need to have that runing before anything gets passed off to the synth of choice. speechd_up hands off the text to be spoken from /dev/softsynth to speech-dispatcher which passes it on to the synth you chose in your config. hth -- Shaun Oliver "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." email: shaun.oliver at optusnet.com.au WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman
