Hello, I had speech-dispatcher running perfectly fine on my slackware installation. That was until I connected my USB sound card. While the USB sound card was connected, speech still came from the internal sound card. After disconnecting the external sound card and rebooting, speech-dispatcher does not want to run. It does not come up with any errors, but it does not load. The internal sound card still works fine, I have tested running flite from the command line, and also playing audio files. I am using speech-dispatcher 0.5 with flite as output. Any help on getting it running again would be welcome, and if anyone knows how to stop it happening in the future, also let me know. From Michael Whapples "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience"