I don't see any reason festival would do this. I think in the past I have compiled festival on slackware and not had any problem with hardware synths. If you are unsure then you can use the RPM's with the rpm2tgz tool, I know this works. Mike Kyrath. (AKA Rob) writes: > In the course of reading various documentation, I came across a warning that compiling festival, or perhaps some other program that requires festival, can potentially kill a hardware synth. > > Is this a true risk? > I'm looking to compile festival on a slackware 10.1 system with a doubletalk synth. > > -- Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >