Hi. You ar not supposed to have a festival server running before you start Gnome. When I've tried using a festival server with (speech-dispatcher ans an example), it will cause problems with Gnome and/or speech-dispatcher. Kenny On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:56:17AM +0200, Lutz Kaiser wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup