Hi What synthesizer are you trying to use? Is it installed properly, i.e. does it work outside of speech dispatcher? On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, ameer armaly wrote: aa> Well, the problem seems to be in speech dispatcher. aa> When I type aa> spd-say hi aa> nothing happens, but the program hangs. aa> I've got /dev/softsynth, with major 10 and minor 26; that seems to work.