On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:02:40AM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote: > 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. Flite and Festival should work. They do for me. It seems there is some problem with the generic output module. Please could you sent me privately your init.d script you use to run Speech Dispatcher so that I can test it with epos-generic? Thank you, Hynek