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. Someone suggested that you might have to move some libs around, but as far as I see, they're all in standard locations. So what gives? Thanks. --Erik