Hi, I just install the hole distro again sarge. Install speech dispatcher install festival installed the dectalk 5.0 software. Still the same problem with a fresh installed changed nothing but the default module from flite to dtk-generic Still no dice. Could my problem be that I am running an on board sound card? The say -a command works for the dectalk festival shows it is working using it's test command. Flite works both ways. Using its own test and using spd-say. Tanks