Hi, no The problem is when you run gnome whith the screen reader for gnome both of them as far as I know it kills your speech device because it only understands that a Braille display is on the serial port. Hth -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kyrath. (AKA Rob) Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:21 AM To: Speakup Subject: festival 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