On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:03:26AM -0400, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi their. i was unable to build flite from source, so I just acquired the > RPM's, install the flite-devel and flite RPM's. Made the required > simlinks to /usr/include flite, built speech dispatcher from source and > installed it. Everything's fine. What else is required to get software > working successfully? Note I also have speechdup installed. I ran the > spd-say program with some text and it complained about it not being able > to connect to the clinet, yet I have speech-dispatcher running. What's the exact message you get from spd-say? Is the port in the configuration of Speech Dispatcher set to the default 6560 (/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf)? Can you connect to that port with telnet? telnet localhost 6560 If not, are you sure Speech Dispatcher is running? You might try to execute it with the -s flag on the console: speech-dispatcher -s to see if it doesn't complain about something. Please let me know. With Regards, Hynek Hanke