Hi, Well I have been a good boy and have read everything I can find on this subject. But the fact of the matter is that everytime I install gnopernicus with debian I get nothing. I install it using the apt-get install gnopernicus -y Command It installs just fine. Also it installs festival and I do a apt-show-versions on the dependencies and they are all there. So using gdm I log in to gnome. Hit alt+f2 run gnopernicus the system beeps. I enable access support. Then I log out and log back in. Run it again and no speech. No error. Comes up. My sighted father when I was up there said nothing showed as being wrong. Both computers I loaded it on did not work. So I guess the question is any one have any idea why not? Should I get gnome 2.10 and get the source for gnopernicus and see if it works. Is the version of festival that comes with debian to old for gnome-speech to use? Speech dispatcher seems to work with it just fine. Also how do I tell gnopernicus to use my dectalk software version 5? Is there a manual out there that explains all this shit in plain simple tmers so I can get this working? Thanks