Jim Wantz p??e v P? 06. 01. 2006 v 20:35 -0500: > Well, Kirk you said the magic word "daemon". I was thinking about the > problem today and thought that I hadn't invoked speechd-up with the -d > switch, instead I had done a --single-probe and when I did that things > began to work. Invoking speechd-up as --run-single (-s) or --run-deamon (-d) makes no difference with respect to the functionality. It's only a matter of convenience; if you like it to run on the foreground or on the background. The important thing is that --probe is only for testing if the connection to Speech Dispatcher and the rest of the speech synthesis chain works correctly. So you hear only a test sentence with this option switched on. Have a nice day, Hynek