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. I tried to use the rc.local script you sent me and then let it talk through epos-generic and it also worked. So it seems the problem is only observed with dtk-generic. It seems it is some strange thing related directly to dectalk. Any ideas anyone? Regards, Hynek Hanke