Hi If you're starting speechd_up right after speech dispatcher, you need to add a 1 second delay using the sleep command, like this: sleep 1 Add it just before you start speechd_up, so speech-dispatcher has time to set up its connections. As for the errors, don't worry about them. Apparently, there's commands in the initialization string that speechd_up doesn't support. I'll have to dig out my doubletalk manual to see if I can figure out what they do and whether it would be worth implementing these, since sftsyn's command set is based on doubletalk's. On Sun, 2 May 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, both speech-dispatcher and speechd_up loaded on boot, but I got no > speech that way. > My /var/log/speechd-up showed the following: > [Sun May 2 07:21:19 2004] speechd: Speechd-speakup starts! > [Sun May 2 07:21:19 2004] speechd: ERROR: [y: this command is not > supported]