Hi Jim and list, my thoughts: test festivall with festivall --tts any_file Do you have started festival-server before running gnome ? and last but not least, do you have a line in the /etc/festival.scm which looks like this? (set! server_access_list nil) To allow access to your festivall-server? i start gnome with "startx" and gnopernicus with /B -s the parameter "/B" is neccessary because Gnopernicus doesnt work with brltty 3.4..... On my system, Gnopernicus does not say anything usefull in Applications like Abiword or open-office. I could n't find out why. regards Lutz
