Hi all Well, thanks to Mr. Hanke of the speechd time who made a change to the generic.c module, I have been able to discover and resolve the problem of DECTalk not starting at system boot-up. It turns out to be one of those simple, should-have-been-obvious things that one feels like an idiot for missing. The Problem: DECTalk is installed in the /usr/local tree, and say resides in /usr/local/bin. However, the initscripts don't include /usr/local/bin in their path statements, for valid security reasons. As a result of this, the shell couldn't find the say command and thus it wasn't being executed. The Solution Edit dtk-generic.conf. Where the say command is referenced, put the full path to say like: /usr/local/bin/say Save the file. That's it. Now it will execute properly on startup. HTH
