Hi. Don't know for sure what your proble is, but ls -l gives me crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 26 Feb 5 19:44 /dev/softsynth Speakup is using software speech as I write this. Hope this helps. Kenny On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:00:50PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here? When I tried > to figure out why my speechstart wasn't working I found this: [Tue Feb > 8 12:47:49 2005] speechd: Speechd-speakup starts! > [Tue Feb 8 12:47:49 2005] speechd: ERROR! Unable to open soft synth > device (/dev/softsynth) > > ls -l on /dev/softsynth gives me this: crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 26 > 2005-02-08 12:46 softsynth > > Anyone have any idea why Speechd-up might not be able to open the > device? Everything is currently running as root. Thanks! > -- > The G-men all are cryin' > And tearin' out their hair, > 'Cause there's a new cryptography > That's shown up everywhere. > Nobody can break it, > However good they be. > Everybody's PC got the PGP. > ---The PGP song > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup