Hi Speech-dispatcher executes as root in my rc.local script, and root most certainly has permission to access the say command. I get no output when running run_test either, nor when I try to use speechd-el with dtk-generic. Curiously, speechd-el can still use flite as its output even though dectalk won't work when started from the initscript. On Sun, 2 May 2004, Hynek Hanke wrote: > This is very strange. > > We should attempt to eliminate speechd-up from the possible places > where this problem might appear. Please can you repeat this proces (so > that dectalk wouldn't work with speechd-up) and try to run run_test > basic.test in src/tests after you login?