> Sat May 1 13:13:34 2004 [959780]: child: synth command = |say -a "[:name paul] [:dv ap 225] [:rate 338] maranatha: "| Hi, can you please try to run this comman manually to see what goes wrong? The exact command string is: say -a "[:name paul] [:dv ap 225] [:rate 338] maranatha: " Does it say something? And is the return code a 0 (type echo $? after running the command)? Best Regards, Hynek